[PLUG] Identifying New External Hard Drive

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:50:17 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>    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?

I thought you had to run mkfs on an unmounted drive. And once you have
a filesystem on it, then it should be recognized. I think.