Hardware :: Setting Up A Samsung Portable USB HDD?
Nov 5, 2010
I have a 650Gb HDD usb drive that I wish to use with ubuntu 10.04LTS aswell as on a WINXP system. HDD is clean. My ubuntu system has a /home partition formatted to EXT3, but as I use IFDRIVE to read this partition from windows, it needs to be set to have inode of 128 eg (mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 -i 128)
my way of thinking is I need to partition the drive, format the drive to EXT3 making sure that is set inode to 128 How do is the best way to do this?
Then I need to get ubuntu to talk to this drive when I plug it in How do I do this?
I run a couple Ubuntu machines in the house, my wife runs XP, there's an eee, etc. I got a Samsung ML-02851ND printer thinking that I could just plug it into my router and then install the printer on all of the various machines and I could print from them. I guess I realize that I can hook up the printer to a host machine and go that route, but i thought the whole point was to hook the printer up to the router.
Due to hardware failure I have had to set up a server several times. Each time it takes more than a day to set it up from scratch and import the databases etc. I would like a solution that separates all the data, including the configuration files, from the binaries and stores the data on a portable medium that can be quickly used to setup a new server.
Here are the details. I don't use Apache Friends' xampp, instead I set up apache2, php, mysql according to the instructions in [URL].. So the php, css, html etc files are in /var/www, the apache config files are in /etc/apache2 and the mysql data is in /var/lib/mysql. What is the simplest way of making the data and configuration files portable so that I can quickly set up the same server on a new machine that I have first installed Ubuntu on?
Can I put the above mentioned partitions and directories on a usb drive? Should I always make regular dumps of the mysql data and use the dump files instead? Should I keep the whole lot on the local hard drive and find a way using rsync, unison etc to mirror the files onto another potential backup machine on a regular basis - this is not a trivial operation if all the file permissions and ownerships are to be preserved.
I got a CentOS 5.3 fileserver machine (no monitor/kb/mouse). I'd like to "pair" it with a specific USB drive, so that when this USB drive is connected and mounted it would start a backup - just a simple cp /source /target will do for now - it's the "autorun on mounted a specific USB drive" part I can't really solve. Is there an elegant way to do this some sort of autorun? My only really rough idea to do it is to check if the USB drive is available with a script run in crontab every minute :-
Well, I want to be able to run some Linux in a VM at my school (on WinXP systems), via a USB stick.Two problems:
- Computers are mediocre - Will be on many of them
I tried portable virtualbox but it starts very slow and runs slow without the guest additions. It just doesn't work right.What I need is a quick, portable VM that starts up quick and runs decently; I'm not expecting all that much from a USB stick but at least smooth cursor movement.I would like one that allows me to save changes on the virtual HDD, as opposed to a LiveCD style VM.
I'm using Zabbix on which I can use give bash command to the agent.This 1-liner will give me all the interfaces with their IPv4 addresses.I have a 2nd expression which returns a checksum so I can detect a difference whenever someone deletes/adds/changes an ipv4 interface.This is the output on my Ubuntu-server:
I'm looking to setup X11 forwarding on my machine and secure it either with a vpn or ssh. A portable x11 client is need for access on the go. I am not sure if I am over complicating the issue but security is a must and some app I can run in windows on a thumb drive is a must.
I removed my old 160Gb laptop drive to install a new 320Gb drive. The 160Gb drive is partitioned as follows: 20Gb unallocated partition, 115Gb ext3 partition (running ubuntu 10.04), and 5Gb swap.
I placed this drive in a portable enclosure so that I could retrieve data from it. The Disk Utility in Ubuntu recognizes the drive but the partitions are not recognized, shows unknown and the only option available is to format the volume. If I place the drive back into my laptop, the drive boots normally and data is accessible.
I have connected other portable USB drives and they work (NTFS formatted), so USB ports are not the problem.
My portable HDD is suddenly saying that I don't have write permission anymore.
properties>permissions says that I have full read/write permission over the top folder of the drive. After looking in the permissions I'm out of ideas.
I checked the properties of the drive itself and it said "Permissions could not be determined"
I haven't changed the permissions deliberately - I use this hard drive every other day to move movies across to my TV.
I need a portable emacs to use for troubleshooting GNU/linux machines. A USB stick is the preferred medium as some of the computers I will work with may not have an optical drive.
Will I need separate versions for 32- and 64-bit systems?
I have kdenlive installed and find it really good. But i am confused as to what format i should render my video in. I want it to play well on any MS windows machine.
I have 2 machines and i configured one how i like it to look. i.e desktop configurations including panels and etc. What i want to do now is it to import all the display settings from one machine to the other laptop i.e. same desktop environment including all the panels with all the shortcut.
Does anyone know, if i can do it or do i have to manually configure everything again.
I have a 1TB USB 3.0 verbatim portable drive. When I connect it to my IBM Thinkpad R500 OpenSUSE 11.4 does not detect the drive as being plugged in. All my USB 2 devices work fine. Do I need to configure something to get this drive going?
can I can use the Ubuntu USB-installer as a portable operating system (through the "try it" feature) by selecting "persistence" when I follow the instructions to load Ubuntu onto a bootable external hard drive
I did originally have Ubuntu 10.04, in which gave me the same problem. I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10.I have been using the portable Adobe Photoshop CS5 application for a while now however it has kind of broken on me now. Everytime I tun the application now, it gives me a runtime error.
"Runtime Error! Program C:Pro. R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. contact the application's support team for more info" I have tried re-installing several times now. Even downloading a different version. I am also running it through wine through the following command.. "wine "C:Program FilesPhotoshopPortablePhotoshopCS5Portable.exe"
I haven't heard of anyone doing this and I am wondering why not. I have an equipment closet. Where I have a home server, network gear, directv box, dvd player, stereo system(yet to come). I have only heard of people putting fans in such closets and wondering why not a portable air conditioner? I am thinking I want a
SOLEUS AIR PE6-10R-03 Portable Air Conditioner from new egg for about $315
It claims 45db 256 CFM and 2 pints/hour dehumidifer. That sounds perfect to me for a media closet but am wondering why I don't see others using a portable air conditioner for a media closet? They had a cheaper unit but it doesn't claim to have a fan which I think circulation is a must for a media closet. There is even a drain that is on the other side of the wall that I can run the drain pipe to. All I need to do is run a exhaust duct through the attic and to an exhaust that I can put in my roof overhang.
I have spent the summer and just got my few must-have Windows programs over to Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit), got it customized with Docky (under Ubuntu Classic) and everything is SWEET. (But don't get me going on Unity dock). One problem: if I boot with my 1TB portable hard drive plugged in Ubuntu will recognize it. If I plug a portable drive in after the boot, I get this error below. I tried Mounting manually and with Archive Mount
I'm trying to mount a seagate portable hard drive. I can mount this device on my other machine except for this machine wherein every time I put the device, it was not being recognize. The led of the portable device just keeps on blinking. When I do fdisk -l, I don't see the device. When I do dmesg, I found the ff:
I used to mount this hard drive before and it was doing fine except last month wherein I cannot mount it anymore. I don't want to reboot and use LiveCD just to backup my files because other people are also using this machine (its a samba server). I tried to use other usb slot but still the same. I'm using CentOS 5.3 minimal installation. i tried to modprobe -r uhci_hcd and modprobe -r ehci_hcd and command again modprobe ehci_hcd and modprobe uhci_hcd but still the same.
i bought a portable harddrive - Transcend�s StoreJet 25D2 500GB, as my internal harddrive space 80GB , i had to transferred one virtualmachine rhel5.4 to portable harddrive. every thing works fine.... VM starts and run.nothing wrong.But last day i found portable harddrive temperature become high.I turned off VM and then sense temp ...no change it is same high.My question is
1.is it safe to let portable hdd get connected all the time when pc is on? 2.can i install main operating system in portable hdd... is it safe ?
I have lately been doing some planning to make a small embedded device (using uClinux) and got to the point of researching storage. I was contemplating using a removable card for the whole storage, but I can't seem to find too much information about the free-ness of various portable storage (there's a brief bit about SD cards on the wiki page, but it's not abundantly clear to me). Can anyone speak to the openness of CF, SD, SDHC, etc.? Are there any OTHER cards out there that are more open, and preferable to use? Aside from being supported, I'm hoping to use something that isn't "on its way out" (so I can get replacements if I have to), but I still would love to stick to my ideology and pick something that is made with more of a free attitude.
Does "Portable Ubuntu" run separate from Windows? Point being, would I be vulnerable to Windows based trojans if I ran Firefox from Portable Ubuntu on Windows?
I'm trying to install CentOS on one of those BSI portable boxes. When installing, it gives this error:"Errno 30 Read-only file system." Which is weird because it's obviously not read only, and doesn't fail right away. It's an IDE optical drive, and a SATA hard drive. I thought it was the SATA optical drive to IDE HDD install issue that has been seen before, but not the case here. The disc is in known-working condition.
im writing a cross-platform software (linux/solaris/mac/bsd) so i was wondering, how portable is pthread library? out of 10 linux distros, how many will have it by default? and does it exists on mac/solaris/bsd by default? or user will have to install it?
I have an odd issue that I am running into. My objective is to insert the following lines at the end of /etc/inputrc on an RHES box:
Code: # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history "e[5~": history-search-backward "e[6~": history-search-forward
I would like this sed snippet to be portable and thus far it's worked. However, I ran into one box where after I ran the snippet, Subsequent sessions lost the ability to use the letter "e". The original version I was using looked like this:
Code: mv /etc/inputrc /tmp/inputrc.orig sed 's/'$endif'/ # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history "e[5~": history-search-backward "e[6~": history-search-forward &/' /tmp/inputrc.orig > /etc/inputrc
Then instead of using s/ I thought perhaps i/ would be better so I re-did it as:
Code: mv /etc/inputrc /tmp/inputrc.orig sed '/'$endif'/ { i i # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history i "e[5~": history-search-backward i "e[6~": history-search-forward }' /tmp/inputrc.orig > /etc/inputrc
Both of these produce the expected result BUT they both resulted in the loss of the letter "e". As I mentioned earlier in the post, this was working on 'newer' RHES 5 and up but I have the misfortune of having to support some older RHES 4 boxes in a closed lab. This particular box is an RHES 4u6.
I'm making life difficult for myself. Summary, I have a laptop with F10 installed on a portable harddrive (sdb 1-3, i.e., no logical volume) Works great, no complaints so I guess this reduces to a grub question; how do I edit grub.conf to boot an iso on sdb4? Fedora10.iso for example.
I added a large collection which are described as being from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. I'd like to eliminate them from my games menu, but I can't remember what the package I added was called.
I'm a recent convert from windows machines to linux. From the first distro I tried I was blown away by how great linux is. But opensuse, while it has taken me a little bit longer to figure a few things out, has by far the best. It even allows me to configure my touchpad so it doesn't drive me insane.On to my actual problem. the portable harddrive placed all my files on to when switching from windows mounts but shows up empty.I know the files are there because they show up when i plug the harddrive into my ps3.
I put the all the files i wanted to save from windows into a folder called portableharddrive (i think) and put that folder on to the portable harddrive.if i do a directory search by running the drive in terminal this is what i get.Can anyone help me find my files or do i have to wait untill my girlfriend gets her computer back?
I think there is something wrong with my Wine setup, but I don't know how to fix it or even what it is. Others have gotten this program to work without problems in Wine. This is the console output that I get from Wine before it crashes. What could be the problem?
I tried removing wine wine directory so that it would auotomatically get recreated when trying to run firefox. Firefox still crashed, but new information was output:
