Cheat Sheet - USB drives
The following is a cheat sheet of some of the more common commands for using a USB drive with a Pi. I've written an extensive tutorial on using USB drives on a Pi shell at http://ipggi.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/u ... pberry-pi/. It covers power supply issues, mounts, performance, disk file formats, compatibility and formating.
To mount a USB drive:
To list your file systems:
Before disconnecting a USB drive:
Format a drive to Linux EXT4
Add Apple OS X HFS+ read/write support
Format a drive to HFS+
Add Windows NTFS read/write support
Format a drive to NTFS
Add Windows/DOS FAT32 read/write support
Format a drive to FAT32