[CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

Thu Jan 3 04:50:32 UTC 2008
Barry L. Kline <blkline at attglobal.net>

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Tim McGeary wrote:

> I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l
> doesn't show it at all.  I was trying to mount and partition it using
> Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to
> mount and partition it.  How is the best way to figure that out?  This
> particular server is running CentOS 4.

Unplug the drive.
from root:   tail -f /var/log/messages

Now plug in the drive and watch the messages scroll by.  That'll tell
you very easily what the drive assignment is.

Barry

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