USB hard drive and CD-RW

[Jason Warm]

In which exact log would I be able to find the device name?

Jason
David Hacker wrote:

> You need to see what device they are assigned to first.  Hard drives 
> are usually /dev/hd? if they are ata and scsi hard drives, USB and 
> firewire hard drives are usually /dev/sd?.  You can look at 
> /var/log/messages to see the boot text and get the device from there 
> or you can use pdisk from a terminal and print out all partiton maps 
> and find out from there.  Once you find out what device and partition 
> number was assigned to the disk you want to mount you need to decide 
> where you want to mount it.  Usually they are mounted in /mnt.  You 
> can open a terminal and su to become root, then cd /mnt and mkdir usb 
> or mkdir macos or mkdir ??? for whatever you want the mount point to 
> be.  Then from the command line just type mount /dev/hd? /mnt/usb for 
> instance.  Once you are able to mount and access the disk you can add 
> it to your fstab file then you just have to type mount /mnt/usb or 
> whatever your mount point is.
> Good Luck,
> David C. Hacker, DVM
> On Jun 27, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Jason Warm wrote:
>
>> Could someone please give me some brief instructions on mounting USB 
>> hard drive and CD-RW.
>>
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