[ltp] Adding USB hard drive storage

["Thomas B. Rücker"]

Mendel Cooper schrieb:
> All right, so the following doesn't apply _specifically_ to Thinkpads ...
>
>
> You can pick up a used 20 - 100 GB 3.5" hard drive for a few bucks at
> yard sales, on the Bay, or elsewhere. Together with a USB enclosure or
> just a USB/cable/converter ($10 or so), you can cobble together cheap
> massive storage and backup. Here's how.
>
> Attach drive with cable or enclosure to USB port on your Thinkpad. It should
> be a USB 2 port unless you have infinite patience (USB 1.1 is unbelievably
> slow for large data transfer). If necessary buay a USB 2 port converter that
> plugs into a PCMCIA slot (about $10).
>
> Now ...
>
> As root:
> 1) fdisk /dev/sda
Make sure /dev/sda _really_ is the disk you just attached using the USB 
enclosure. (e.g. by tailing /var/log/messages)
Newer Laptops have SATA drives - then the system drive is "sda" and the 
usb drive might get "sdb"
Also some distributions choose to reconfigure udev(?) to have fancy 
devicenames. I think I've seen a /dev/usb/disc0 type of thing some time 
ago...

just my 0,02€

Thomas