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Note: GNOME and KDE might do this for you,.. an icon the drive will pop up on the desktop for you....
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Note: GNOME and KDE might do this for you,.. an icon the drive will pop up on the desktop for you....

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won't it ask for username/password or something like that on a new system?
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won't it ask for username/password or something like that on a new system?

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No. It will not ask for user/pass unless you are using encrypted filesystem. ( ext3 inside an encryption loop )<br />
Encryption is not implemeted by default.<br />
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<a href="http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/" rel="ugc">http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/</a>&nbsp;- for more information about encrypted filesystems.
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No. It will not ask for user/pass unless you are using encrypted filesystem. ( ext3 inside an encryption loop )
Encryption is not implemeted by default.

http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/ [http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/] - for more information about encrypted filesystems.

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If you use an encrypted filesystem you can should look into the cryptoloop version that implements luks, it will make things a lot easier.<br />
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<a href="http://luks.endorphin.org/" rel="ugc">http://luks.endorphin.org/</a><br />
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Using the right setup you can boot from an encrypted filesystem using this.<br />
Gentoo has support for this in the initramfs.<br />
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If you use an encrypted filesystem you can should look into the cryptoloop version that implements luks, it will make things a lot easier.

http://luks.endorphin.org/ [http://luks.endorphin.org/]

Using the right setup you can boot from an encrypted filesystem using this.
Gentoo has support for this in the initramfs.




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Instead of &quot;fdisk -l&quot;, you can just &quot;cat /proc/partitions&quot; (no need to be root). If you do this before and after plugging in the drive, you'll see what new partitions it provided.
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Instead of "fdisk -l", you can just "cat /proc/partitions" (no need to be root). If you do this before and after plugging in the drive, you'll see what new partitions it provided.

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 Title: &nbsp;can an ext3 drive connected to another linux system<br />
&nbsp;Hi All,<br />
I just wanted to know if I could connect my linux ext3 external USB drive to any other Linux operating system. If I do so what will be the pre requisites.<br />
Thanks. 
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 Title:  can an ext3 drive connected to another linux system
 Hi All,
I just wanted to know if I could connect my linux ext3 external USB drive to any other Linux operating system. If I do so what will be the pre requisites.
Thanks. 

can an ext3 drive connected to another linux system

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