[incise.org] usb hard drive in lunix

• plug it all in
• look for which sdX drive it is in /var/log/messages
• if you don't want to be stuck with fat32's limitations (case insensitivity, etc), then make it, say, ext3:
  • cfdisk /dev/sdX
  • make it a linux partition, write, quit
  • mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sdX (-m specifies the % of disk space to reserve for root)
  • twiddle thumbs
• mount it
• edit fstab
• blammo