Tim McGeary wrote: > Hi all, > > As a disclaimer, I'm new to this list and very green administering > CentOS. I run it on my test servers and do very basic networking and > server administration (most users, permissions, and web app stuff). > > I have a backup server that I am using rsync to collect important > in-process file for our digital library from both Windows and Linux > servers, as well as a specific applications which are updated on a > separate test server. > > This backup server ran out of space and I have no more internal slots > available to add another disk, so I bought a 750 GB Seagate FreeAgent > external USB hard drive. I've seen some various issues out there > about how Seagate FA HDs go into sleep mode when used in the manner I > want to, but all of the people posting about that seemed to be able to > mount theirs with no problem. > > 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. > > Thanks, > Tim > If it's a brand new drive it will not have a valid partition table. A simple sudo /sbin/fdisk -l will show all drives and their partition tables. The one with an invalid partition table is the one you're interested in.