Hard drives and storage media
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External documentation
Linux System Administrators Guide: Chapter 5. Using Disks and Other Storage Media
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/disk-usage.html
Filesystems and Mounting
http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p10.html
USB drive
To change the label of a usb drive, do:
For a FAT16 and FAT32:
sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdc1 ::my_label
For EXT2, EXT3, EXT4:
sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 my_label
See also:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive
SSD (Solid State Drive)
See this Arch Linux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives
Mount
See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB
formatting
See:
http://linux.overshoot.tv/wiki/system/filesystem
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