I'm not even sure how to ask this question!  Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

 

So I wanted to plug a SATA drive into my server's USB port so I could copy stuff using mc directly onto it.  After hours of research I settled on installing unmenu and the ntfs-3g package.  Then I went and mounted the drive (already formatted NTFS with folders for Movies and TV Shows) so I could start copying files onto it.  I got some weird message about unrecognized format and it asked if I wanted to format with reiserfs, which I don't b/c the drive is going into a media player when it's been filled with content.

 

Now I can't seem to access the drive or the folders on the drive or unmount it or do anything with it in unmenu or telnet.  It shows up in Disk Management like this:

 

usb-WDC_WD20_EZRX-00DC0B0_000000000000-0:0 * 36893488T /dev/sdm

 

I have no clue with Linux.  Could someone please help me figure out how to (1) unmout the drive and then (2) mount the drive so I can begin copying content over with midnight commander?

 

Any help much appreciated.  Thanks!

I'm not even sure how to ask this question!  Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

 

So I wanted to plug a SATA drive into my server's USB port so I could copy stuff using mc directly onto it.  After hours of research I settled on installing unmenu and the ntfs-3g package.  Then I went and mounted the drive (already formatted NTFS with folders for Movies and TV Shows) so I could start copying files onto it.  I got some weird message about unrecognized format and it asked if I wanted to format with reiserfs, which I don't b/c the drive is going into a media player when it's been filled with content.

 

Now I can't seem to access the drive or the folders on the drive or unmount it or do anything with it in unmenu or telnet.  It shows up in Disk Management like this:

 

usb-WDC_WD20_EZRX-00DC0B0_000000000000-0:0 * 36893488T /dev/sdm

 

I have no clue with Linux.  Could someone please help me figure out how to (1) unmout the drive and then (2) mount the drive so I can begin copying content over with midnight commander?

 

Any help much appreciated.  Thanks!

If it mounted, it would show up in the output when you type:

mount

 

If it is mounted, it would probably be as /dev/sdm1

(The trailing "1" indicates the first partition on the disk)

 

If it is mounted, you can un-mount it by typing

umount /dev/sdm1

 

If not partitioned, you'll only see the device for the entire un-partitioned drive ( /dev/sdm ) in the disk management link.

 

Do NOT format the drive unless you do not want any of the existing data on it as that data will be lost if you format the drive.

 

if you want to format the drive in windows first, you must first define a partition on the disk and then format it.  You can format it in windows as NTFS.

When then paced in the linux server you'll see it (the formatted partition) as /dev/sdm1

 

There are instructions in the wiki on how to perform the mount command if you do not wish to use unMENU's commands.  There is only a read-only driver fr reiserfs in windows, so don't format it with a reiserfs unless you do not intend to write to the disk in windows.

Thanks Joe,

 

Even though I had formatted the drive in windows, when I connected back to my pc it was showing as uninitialized and i was getting cyclic redundancy errors.  So I reformatted a fresh drive and mounted it via unmenu, then mounted with write access and then shared it.  But the share button never changed to unshare.  At the bottom of the page it says sharing /dev/sdm1 as sdm1.  But when I navigate to it in MC I don't see the 'Movies' folder I created.  I do see it on my network as a share but when I try to access the folder it prompts me for a password.  I've tried 'root' and I get an error message.

 

So my drive's mounted, appears to be shared, but I can't navigate to the 'Movies' folder I created after formatting in windows.  When I try to copy a movie folder using MC to the root directory of mnt/disk/sdm1 I get an error that the folder already exists there, which it doesn't.

 

So I'm kind of stuck on how to proceed.  Any thoughts?