[PLUG] Identifying New External Hard Drive

[William A Morita]

Rich,

Try running "fdisk -l" to see if the new drive shows up.
Once you have drive device (e.g. /dev/sd? ) you can use fdisk to setup the
partition table.
Then you run mkfs.ext on the a partition on the drive.

- Bill Morita 

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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:50 PM
To: plug at pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Identifying New External Hard Drive

   I have a new 40G 2.5" hard drive that I've put in an external enclosure
and want to prepare for use. It's connected via a USB cable, but
/var/log/messages does not seem to recognize that new hardware is present.

   Before I run mkfs.ext3 on the drive, I need to identify it and mount it.
How do I identify a clean drive, and how do I specify a filesystem type when
I mount it?

Rich

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