21st
Amazing how easy it’s become
My SATA to USB adapter arrived today. Hooked it up and managed to get embroiled in a mess trying to get a logical partition on the SATA drive mounted. That was quite honestly the most difficult thing I did today—my initial hunch (which turned out to be correct) was that since the desktop and SATA drives contained default-partitioned Fedora installs, they were both vying for the same names (and the desktop hard disk being Primary Master and all that stuff won). After some poking about in vim and some Googling I finally managed to find the right answer and sorted it out. Somehow X decided that would be a wonderful time to go pear-shaped, so I was confined to 1024×768 for a while. Frantic Googling, only to realize just one little modeline could be added to xorg.conf to fix it.
After I had recovered all the data from the SATA drive, my next task was to repartition the drive for use as an external drive for holding music. I’d never done this before in Linux, but GNU parted was surprisingly simple to use. Moreso than Windows’ FDISK. Formatting the drive, mounting it, and setting it up in fstab was a breeze as well.
Please tell me that Linux is getting easier, and I’m not just progressing along the path toward reclusive nerd-dom.
