Did a win95 fat32 /dev/sdb1 2048 62517247 62515200 29.8G b W95 FAT32 sudo mkfs.fat -n GREGLEX32 /dev/sdb1 * ********************************************** To format an external usb 3.0 drive 1. check what is mounted sudo mount 2. list all the connected drives sudo fdisk -l 2. unmount sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo umount /dev/sdb2 3. Partition the disk the disk sudo fdisk /dev/sdb o --> new dos partition table n --> new partition (make it +380G) n --> new partion (use the rest) t --> change partition_1 type to "07" p --> print partition table w --> write out changes (make sure disk is not mounted) 4. Format the partitions sudo mkfs.ntfs -f -L SGWIN /dev/sdb1 sudo mkfs.ext4 -L SGLNX /dev/sdb2 5. quit linux 6. eject the drive in windows 7. In widows administrator cmd shell run diskapart help automount automount scrub exit shutdown -s -t 0 8. Add to usb filter of virtual machine 9 restart virtual machine 10 1998 cd / 1999 sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /homeLocal 2000 ll 2001 sudo chmod ugo+rwx homeLocal 2002 cd homeLocal/ 2003 lls 2004 sudo mkdir tarfiles 2005 sudo chmod ugo+rwx tarfiles 2006 ll 2008 sudo chmod ugo+rx lost+found 11. untar CSUN file contents of untar_CSUN.sh >>>> begin untar_CSUN.sh #!/bin/bash # ################################################# # Make sure to run as root to preserve GID:UID # Otherwise compare will fail # # sudo ./untar_CSUN.sh # ################################################# fnameList=( C5_MSD_PDK.tar.gz PVS16.13.004.tar.gz SPECTRE18.10.169.tar.gz cadence.tar.gz tanner.tar.gz TannerTools.tar.gz aoj_cal_2019.2_35.24.tar.gz docs_cal_2019.2_14.12.tar.gz ) echo "" for fname in "${fnameList[@]}" do echo "Copying : $fname" cp /home/greg/Desktop/qccloc/$fname /homeLocal/tarfiles echo "Extracting : $fname" tar xf tarfiles/$fname echo "Comparing : $fname" tar df tarfiles/$fname done echo "" echo "Done - Have a nice day" >>>> done utar_csun.sh 12. Run untar script sudo ./untar_CSUN.sh