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* Using a "terminal" session, login in using the "root" user ID.
* The "device name" of the drive needs to be determined.
<blockquote> Enter the following command:
dmesg
</blockquote>
<blockquote>The following information is displayed:
<pre>[11122.304178] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[11122.422152] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=3320
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[11123.516813] sdb: sdb1</pre></blockquote>
* The "device name" is "sdb1".
* The USB drive needs to be "unmounted".
<blockquote>
umount /dev/sdb1
</blockquote>
* Format drive for ext3 filesystem and set drive label name as "usbdisk".
<blockquote>
mkfs -t ext3 -v -L usbdisk /dev/sdb1
</blockquote>
:'''Please Note: THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON /dev/sdb1, MAKE SURE THIS IS THE CORRECT USB DRIVE AND NOT ANOTHER DRIVE.'''
<blockquote>The following information is displayed:
<pre>mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
fs_types for mke2fs.conf resolution: 'ext3'
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.
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done</pre></blockquote>
* Whenever a drive is formatted in Linux, about 5% is reserved of the total space on the drive for the operating system to continue using the hard drive to operate, even if it gets full. This is totally unnecessary for a USB external hard drive if it stores only data and not to run an operating system.
<blockquote> Enter the following to remove the reserved space:
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
</blockquote><blockquote>The following information is displayed:
tune2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Setting reserved blocks percentage to 0% (0 blocks)
* In the previous section the device name found found via the "dmesg" command. The device name found was "sdb1".
* We set the set the external drive's "label". It was set to "usbdisk".
 
 
To find the label at anytime via the "root" user ID enter:
e2label /dev/sdb1
* Start a "terminal" session login as the "root" user ID.
* Issue the following command to unmount the external drive:
<blockquote> umount /media/usbdrive</blockquote>
* Should an error occur indicating that the drive is busy and cannot be unmounted enter the command below. Then try the unmount command again.
<blockquote> fuser -km /media</blockquote>
===Installing rsnapshot===
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