[nmglug] external drive additional

[BrianO'Keefe]

I tried to unmount the drive and couldn't so I saved everything and just
turned it off. When I restarted it the partitions appeared normal as
before-weird (to me at least!).
Some good news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/20/cuba_opensource/print.html

Nick Frost wrote:
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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> >Can I just rename the
>> directory back to "For_Linux" or will that cause some sort of screw up.
>> I'd like to just get back to the status quo of having the "For_Linux"
>> directory.
>
> I'm guessing you will use "mv" command to rename, which will move
> For_Linux_1 to For_Linux", which is fine if that's what you want.
> Another option is to move the files (recursively if necessary) from
> For_Linux_1 into For_Linux and then remove the For_Linux_1 directory.
> If you want to play it safe, you can archive (tar, bzip, etc.) the
> data before you perform the move to ensure all goes well.
> -Nick
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