Riotboard as storage.

Question

i would like to use riot-board as a network storage. downloaded the image but the external seagate storage is not detected.

tusharp · Accepted Answer

HDD comes with NTFS formatted default. normally it gets recognised.in case it does not try below. display all mounted drives: 
 df -h 
 plug in/plug out the external storage and mark the difference using "ls /dev" command. the new sda* device is the storage one we need to mount. install ntfs-3g to reconize ntfs partitions: 
 apt-get install ntfs-3g 
 create mount directory 
 mkdir /mnt/mymount 
 mount the HDD to the directory 
 mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/mymount 
 now check /mnt/mymount directory to browse HDD.

tusharp · Answer

can you try the above steps mentioned by selsinork, mostly drivers with different formats than linux doesn't respond.

caution: if its a new drive copy all the goodies that came with it using windows.

if it still doesn't work plz share the vendor and product id of your usb storage by hitting the "lsusb" in cmdline and look for seagate for your drive.

Former Member · Answer

support for external usb storage is probably there, but what may be the problem is that the drive is formatted NTFS and that can require extra help to be useable in linux. Reformatting to ext4 is the obvious fix for decent support.

I've had FAT32 formatted 16GB usb key storage work happily with the default android and with 3.16-rc* Haven't tried ubuntu, but as it's using mostly the same 3.0.35 as android then I'd hope it works there as well.