How to install a wbfs driver on Linux Ubuntu
Hello,
I have an external hard drive formatted in WBFS. I formatted the external hard drive using Windows 7. When I connect my external hard drive under Linux (12.04 LTS) via a USB cable, the device (my external hard drive) is not recognized by the computer.
Do I need to install a WBFS driver or perform some action on the computer? Can you please indicate the sites where I can download WBFS drivers for Linux Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) or the actions to take?
Thank you in advance.
I have an external hard drive formatted in WBFS. I formatted the external hard drive using Windows 7. When I connect my external hard drive under Linux (12.04 LTS) via a USB cable, the device (my external hard drive) is not recognized by the computer.
Do I need to install a WBFS driver or perform some action on the computer? Can you please indicate the sites where I can download WBFS drivers for Linux Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) or the actions to take?
Thank you in advance.
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1 réponse
So you will probably need to install something under Linux that teaches it to read the WBFS file system. Generally, when you want to install something under Linux, you should search with your package manager (typically with the command apt-cache or the website https://packages.ubuntu.com/ to see if a package corresponds to your need.
Example:
Here we see that the package qwbfsmanager seems to fit your need. You just need to install it using aptitude or apt-get, for instance. First, a little update:
... and then we install:
All that’s left is to launch the program installed by this package. We can easily find which executables are provided by qwbfsmanager by looking at the contents of the package. If the package is installed, we could use the command "dpkg --contents /path/to/package" but that forces you to find the package path in /var/cache/apt/archives which is not particularly intuitive. So we will install and use another handy tool, apt-file:
Then we ask apt-file to list the binaries (meaning: the executables) contained in the qwbfsmanager package
Okay, so here we see that it's simply "qwbfsmanager", so you just need to launch it from a terminal (or from the menus of your graphical interface):
If you want more details about apt, I invite you to read this:
http://www.mistra.fr/tutoriel-linux-apt.html
Good luck
Example:
(mando@silk) (~) $ apt-cache search wbfs qwbfsmanager - graphical file manager for the WBFS filesystem
Here we see that the package qwbfsmanager seems to fit your need. You just need to install it using aptitude or apt-get, for instance. First, a little update:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
... and then we install:
sudo apt-get install qwbfsmanager
All that’s left is to launch the program installed by this package. We can easily find which executables are provided by qwbfsmanager by looking at the contents of the package. If the package is installed, we could use the command "dpkg --contents /path/to/package" but that forces you to find the package path in /var/cache/apt/archives which is not particularly intuitive. So we will install and use another handy tool, apt-file:
sudo apt-get install apt-file apt-file update
Then we ask apt-file to list the binaries (meaning: the executables) contained in the qwbfsmanager package
(mando@silk) (~) $ apt-file list qwbfsmanager | grep bin qwbfsmanager: /usr/bin/qwbfsmanager
Okay, so here we see that it's simply "qwbfsmanager", so you just need to launch it from a terminal (or from the menus of your graphical interface):
qwbfsmanager
If you want more details about apt, I invite you to read this:
http://www.mistra.fr/tutoriel-linux-apt.html
Good luck