samsung USBHDD

[Chris Taylor]

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?

Thanks for any help

[Addinall]

Easy way is to format the thing FAT32 so Windoze doesn't get upset and
mount that under UBUNTU

mkdir /media/external

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/external -o
uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

(picking the correct device of course).
You can read NTFS drives, unsure if you can write to them.

HTH.
Mark Addinall.