[ale] simple question

[Christopher R. Curzio]

I think it would be far easier to just cat /proc/partitions or look for
the entry in dmesg.

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Thus Spake Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:
Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:52:09 -0500

> I'm guessing it might be showing up as a different usb device now.  Try 
> the following:
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> .
> .
> fdisk -l /dev/sdz
> 
> Or until you're satisified. :)
> 
> > 
> > And then I think I am back to a question that was asked earlier
> > this week.  How do I make the OS consistently identify this drive
> > as sdc1 rather than sd?1, which it is doing now, depending on
> > how many other USB "storage devices" have been plugged in before
> > it?
> > I have this line ready to activate in /etc/fstab:
> > 
> >     #/dev/sdc1  /mnt/backup  ext3 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> > 
> > And if that isn't correct I would really appreciate a correction
> > _before_ I screw something up any further.
> 
> Has nothing to do with your entry in fstab, unfortunately.  You're going
> 
> to have to look at either hotplug or udev, depending on your kernel. 
> Personally, I've found nothing but frustration when trying to get this 
> to work on older kernels.  On SuSE 9.2 it just works.  Sweet.
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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