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| author |  https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web> | 2013-12-29 03:16:51 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-12-29 03:16:51 +0000 |
| commit | 4143321ee7eb4a712b38fed0d0439bebc30f4f4a (patch) | |
| tree | bcbec31e85a5646df4226d877fd92fe1da168001 | |
| parent | eca7529529453ee812895a95ac19375fe24fe730 (diff) | |
i am totally confused about thsi
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diff --git a/doc/forum/confused_about_external_drives.mdwn b/doc/forum/confused_about_external_drives.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9fdb5c979 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/confused_about_external_drives.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +First off, to get that off my chest: I am not using Gnome, KDE, XFCE or any "desktop manager" (well, not quite true, I use some bits of XFCE, but it's easier to assume I'm not). + +So automounting is always a little tricky for me, and I often use `pmount` to mount external drives and flash cards. + +Now, I have tried to add an external drive as a backup to one of my git-annex repositories. I zero'd the drive, added a GPT partition (I wanted labels), formatted it as `ext4` and then gave it to my user: + + cfdisk /dev/sdd + mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdd1 + mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt + chown anarcat /mnt + umount /mnt + +Now, at this step I would have assumed the drive would be seen by the webapp, but that wasn't the case. Maybe I wasn't patient enough? In any case, at some point I got tired and went to the commandline to add the drive as a remote. I did the following: + + mkdir -p /media/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1 + mount /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1 /media/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1 + cd /srv/mp3 + git annex remote add backup /media/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1/mp3 + git init /media/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1/mp3 + git annex sync + git annex copy --to backup + +So that worked, and the webapp was now seeing `backup` as yet another repository, but not quite removeable. So failed. Scratching that, I stopped the assistant, and trashed the repository: + + rm -rf /media/ata-WDC_WD15EADS-00P8B0_WD-WMAVU0748851-part1/mp3 + git remote rm backup + +But now, oddly enough, the webapp would see the external drive after being restarted, and I was able to add that drive. + +What am I doing wrong? how is the assistant finding those drives? --[[anarcat]] |