2009/8/3 Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net>: > > To discover the device name and partition name that the kernel wants > you to use for the HDD, run 'ls -l /dev/sd*' > > If this give more than two lines of output, unplug whatever other USB > devices you are running and repeat. If you still have more than two > lines, go slow, and think hard. Try unplugging your new HDD and plugging > it in again, and monitor how/what device names change as you do that. >
An alternative is to run 'dmesg' shortly after plugging in the new drive. It'll spit out a series of messages, the tail end of which should show the new drive being recognised. Another alternative is to run 'mount' priort to ejecting/unmounting the disk from your desktop environment. You'll see from the listing the name of the USB drive. -- Paul Richards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org