Installing a USB External Hard Disk

[Progster]

I have just bought a LaCie external hard disk and as I am a relative newbie to Linux and know next to nothing about the OS. I was wondering how I would go about installing it.

(I should also point out that the drive has been re-formatted in ext3 format)

How do I go about mounting it? Is it just a simple mount command or do I need to change fstab, if so where do I find the extra fields of information required in it. Or would I need to do something else entirely?

I would greatly appreciate any feedback or prescriptions with regard to this.

Steve

[sarumont]

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/vie...ight=usb+thumb

See if that post on the forums (easily searchable) helps.

[Muser]

simple command, assuming linux has already assigned a dev/ to it.

in a terminal:

su
Password:
mount /dev/[insert-name-here] /mnt/[whatever-u-want]

[Progster]

Many thanks for the tips all is mounted and working well