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1. Solaris
Hello, Unix users :)
Has anyone had this problem when you connect an external hard drive to the server and it is simply not visible with any commands?
The server is HP DL380 g8, and OS is:
root@...:/# cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10x_u10wos_17b X86
... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Aratai
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2. Gentoo
accidentally formatted ext3 external hard disk .. im using EAse us tool in windows system to recover the data ... will this works??
if yes ... the another external hard disk have to be formatted in which file system ?
is there any other option ..please help me out (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rajeshz
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3. Red Hat
Hi All,
I am very new to UNIX systems and need your help.
OS: RHEL 5.4(LINUX) 64 bit
I need to get a new external 2TB HDD for transferring data from between linux machines. This HDD will not be used in any windows/MAC servers. Only on UNIX systems(linux/solaris) the USB device is to be... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Bikash Mishra
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4. Red Hat
Hello everyone ! I just installed Red Hat 6.4 and when i plug in my external HDD firstly i can see the files and after 5 seconds all dissapears. What causes to this and ways to fix it ? Thanks in advance ! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: djqbert
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to get an external HDD for a SUN server running Solaris 10. The Western Digital that I have will not recognize and when I went looking for drivers WD only has them for MAC and Windows. Is there a External HDD that is known to work with Unix? (24 Replies)
Discussion started by: SIFT3R
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6. OS X (Apple)
Hi,
As I did not find any specific group for this question, i am putting it here.
Can I install Mac OS on an external hard disk?
Is this possible or not? I know it is very hard to install mac os on non-mac hardwares. I have a dell inspiron laptop and i want to use mac from external hdd.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sanzee
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7. Solaris
hi,
i am using vmware workstation 6.0 and i installed sun solaris 10.
when i add new hard disk(vm->>settings->>add).
when i start the system and try to use format command there i only see my old one hdd (new added hdd is not showing). but my new hdd is showing at the bottom right as a icon where... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anand15880
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello UNIX-community,
We have an older SCO UNIX-system running PCS3 (an industrial platform) and since a few weeks we are experiencing problems with our archiving software.
For about ten years, the system archives data to Magneto-Optical discs (MO-discs) and thus far it has worked fine.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: V4Friend
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9. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
Hi,
Unix based,
My harddrive won't boot and I'm looking for a reliable tool
that can mount a hdd on Windows XP and show me the files
stored on a NFS system.
I tried the tool: Ext2IFS but this didn't work.
I found a lot of tools on google to mount nfs share thru a network
but that's... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: severt
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10. Linux
Hi,
I want to install LINUX on my laptop. I have a 2GHZ,1GB RAM and HDD is not partitioned. I donot want to touch this HDD and I have external HDD of 200GB. Can I install LINUX on this external HDD?. I would like system to detect linux only when I connect my external hard drive. else system should... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sureshht
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VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8) Open VM Tools VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8)
NAME
vmware-hgfsmounter - program for mounting HGFS shares
SYNOPSIS
mount.vmhgfs SHARE DIRECTORY [ -o OPTIONS ]
vmware-hgfsmounter SHARE DIRECTORY [ -o OPTIONS ]
DESCRIPTION
This is a console-based mount helper application. It mounts the HGFS share, specified by name, to a local directory. Share names must be in
host:dir format.
OPTIONS
uid=ARGUMENT
mount owner (by uid or username)
gid=ARGUMENT
mount group (by gid or groupname)
fmask=ARGUMENT
file umask (in octal)
dmask=ARGUMENT
directory umask (in octal)
ro mount read-only
rw mount read-write (default)
nosuid
ignore suid/sgid bits
suid
allow suid/sgid bits (default)
nodev
prevent device node access
dev allow device node access (default)
noexec
prevent program execution
exec
allow program execution (default)
sync
file writes are synchronous
async
file writes are asynchronous (default)
mand
allow mandatory locks
nomand
prevent mandatory locks (default)
noatime
do not update access times
atime
update access times (default)
nodiratime
do not update directory access times
adirtime
update directory access times (default)
ttl=ARGUMENT
time before file attributes must be revalidated (in seconds). Improves performance but decreases coherency. Defaults to 1 if not set.
EXAMPLES
This command is intended to be run from within /bin/mount by passing the option '-t vmhgfs'. For example:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo /mnt/foo
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo/bar /var/lib/bar
SEE ALSO
vmware-checkvm(1)
vmware-hgfsclient(1)
vmware-toolbox(1)
vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
vmware-user(1)
vmware-xferlogs(1)
libguestlib(3)
libvmtools(3)
vmware-guestd(8)
vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
vmblock(9)
vmci(9)
vmhgfs(9)
vmmemctl(9)
vmsock(9)
vmsync(9)
vmxnet(9)
vmxnet3(9)
HOMEPAGE
More information about vmware-hgfsmounter and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.
AUTHOR
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.
This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMWARE-HGFSMOUNTER(8)