USB hard drive and CD-RW

[David Hacker]

It is in the message I just sent.
/var/log/messages is the file that contains all of the boot messages  
and other output from the system.  You can open it in emacs or pico    
from a console just type emacs /var/log/messages
You can also find the most recent information in /var/log/dmesg.


David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jun 27, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Jason Warm wrote:

> 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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