Re: Segate FreeAgent USB drive

ed <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:36:31 -0400
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On 09/03/2010 07:25 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 05:13 PM, ed wrote:
>> On 09/03/2010 06:06 PM, Chris wrote:
>>> I've been looking at these at Wal-Mart and wondering if anyone has any
>>> experience with them such as is it pretty much plug it in and it works?
>>>
>>>    
>> for the most part, it may take a second or 30 to be seen by kde or 
>> gnome, but when I plug in and turn on mine, in KDE, a window pops up 
>> asking to mount it or copy it. ( or some such, since I know I am 
>> going to mount it and open a konq/Dolphin window there, I take that 
>> choice.
>
> If you are dual-booting the machine with, say, Windows and Linux, 
> several partitions and at least two file systems, how does that work, 
> or does it?  --doug
> -- 
> Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
>    
it's not so much that I don't "dual boot" as that I don't boot often at 
all.
my partition table is a mess, but if the drive is partitioned, then the 
popup window offers the partition choice then the open in file manager 
choices.

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    <font size=3D"+1">for the most part, it may take a second or 30 to be
seen by kde or gnome, but when I plug in and turn on mine, in KDE, a
window pops up asking to mount it or copy it. ( or some such, since I
know I am going to mount it and open a konq/Dolphin window there, I
take that choice.</font><br>
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If you are dual-booting the machine with, say, Windows and Linux,
several partitions and at least two file systems, how does that work,
or does it?=C2=A0 --doug<br>
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<font size=3D"+1">it's not so much that I don't "dual boot" as that I
don't boot often at all. <br>
my partition table is a mess, but if the drive is partitioned, then the
popup window offers the partition choice then the open in file manager
choices. <br>
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