[PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Sep 29 15:49:21 UTC 2017


On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, david wrote:

> The only simple way is to test it, and check the dmesg output or tail
> the /var/log/messages file.

David,

   Perhaps this weekend.

> If the operating system only sees one device, then the case is doing
> something internal and you likely won't be able to change. You would
> likely be able to guess at it by getting size information on the
> filesystem using parted or fdisk on the presented device.

   Or df -h.

   In other words, there is no generic answer so testing of individual cases
is required. That works for me.

Thanks,

Rich



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