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====Formatting your USB drive====

====Formatting your USB drive====

=====ext2/ext3=====

=====ext2/ext3/ext4=====

<ol></li><li>Copied with slight changes from [[Affa#Alternatively_setup_a_USB_drive]]

<ol></li><li>Copied with slight changes from [[Affa#Alternatively_setup_a_USB_drive]]

</li><li>Connect a USB hard disk to the USB Bus. Now you must determine what device the kernel has assigned to the drive. View the /var/log/message and search for ''Initializing USB Mass Storage driver''. A few lines below you'll find the name of the device. In this example it is ''sdc''. Replace ''/dev/sdc'' by ''your device'' in following instructions.

</li><li>Connect a USB hard disk to the USB Bus. Now you must determine what device the kernel has assigned to the drive. View the /var/log/message and search for ''Initializing USB Mass Storage driver''. A few lines below you'll find the name of the device. In this example it is ''sdc''. Replace ''/dev/sdc'' by ''your device'' in following instructions.

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

  mkfs.ext3 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

  mkfs.ext3 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

</li><li>Make the mount point

</li><li>Make the mount point

  mkdir -p /media/usbdevice

  mkdir -p /media/usbdevice