[CentOS] Trying to understand USB HD configuration

Fri Jun 3 15:01:20 UTC 2011
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>

> Now, when I turn on the USB drive (it is self-mounted in 5.5), 
> the USB drive has been assigned "disk-1" -- understood.  What I 
> am missing is the "table" that contains the information pointing 
> to USB drive, disk-1.  I would like to reset the table so that 
> "disk" is the USB drive and delete the data that is now on my 
> main drive.


Did you "eject" (umount) your disk before you turned it off...?

JD