TUTORIAL: Share a Hard Drive Between Ubuntu And The XMB

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NinReznor

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8. December 2007 @ 09:26

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This guide will help you to enable the use of an external hard drive from both the PS3 XMB and your Linux installation. You will need a USB hard drive of any size for this guide.

Make sure that your hard drive is plugged into your PS3. The first thing that you need to do is find out what device it is recognized as. Open a terminal ...

Code:
sudo fdisk -l

Try to locate your drive based on its size. (mine is /dev/sdf1 but it may be sdd1 for your drive or something similar)

If you still cannot figure out what your drive is, click Places>Computer and look for it there. If you find it try to double click it or view the properties to figure out what device it is. You can also try right clicking on the drive and select "eject" and find the device from the error message.

Now we ned to install some tools for dealing with vfat file systems since that is what the PS3 uses.

Code:
sudo apt-get install dosfstools

Now we can create the filesystem on your hard drive. Please note that ALL data will be erased. (If your hard drive is already a fat32 file system then there is no need to do this step.) Substitute your hard drive device wherever you see "/dev/sdf1" from here on.

Code:
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdf1

We will need to create an entry in our fstab file for this hard drive.

Code:
sudo nano /etc/fstab

add the following line to the end of the file

Code:
/dev/sdf1 /media/PS3-Share vfat defaults,noauto,users 0 0

Now we will create the mount point where the hard drive will be mounted.

Code:
sudo mkdir /media/PS3-Share

Now we need to add a command to our system that will be issued at startup. (We need to do this because of how the vfat file systems work ... it is a permissions issue. If you care to read more about it, check this out.

http://my.opera.com/lounge/forums/topic.dml?id=83440

Goto System>Preferences>Sessions

Select the "Startup Programs" tab then click the "Add" button and enter this command

Code:
mount /dev/sdf1

Now the hard drive should be mounted automatically when you reboot. You should also be able to access it from the PS3 XMB. Please note that only certain file types are recognized from the PS3 XMB.

In order to mount it right now, issue the following command ...

Code:
mount /dev/sdf1

Now you have an easy way to share files between Ubuntu and the XMB.

Credit goes to Ciego from psubuntu forums.

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glenquag

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8. December 2007 @ 10:37

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Thanks for posting this I might try it out!

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