Geoffrey Leach wrote: <snip> > My original post was somewhat unclear. The question was which device is > assigned to the disk when it's plugged in so I can know which device to > mount. > > It appears that if I look at /dev/disk/by-label, the device name -- > Sansa\x20e250 for example, is a symbolic link to the device -- ../../ > sdb1 for example. I can then mount /dev/sdb1. so what happens when you use commands 'df' or 'mount'? i do not have an eSATA drive to check with, but i do know that when plug in a usb memory stick, i get following. +++ $ mount|grep /dev|sort /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hdb6 on /hd/b/06 type ext3 (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sde on /media/disk type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) $ df|sort /dev/hda1 8076508 3842888 3816736 51% / /dev/hda3 10721904 6261968 3906500 62% /home /dev/hdb6 4814936 140776 4429572 4% /hd/b/06 /dev/sde 254218 3208 251010 2% /media/disk Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 192676 0 192676 0% /dev/shm +++ therefore, i tend to presume that if you set up your eSATA drive in '/etc/fstab' for auto mount and connected it, then 'mount' and 'df' should show you your eSATA drive. as i said, i do not have a eSATA to try and i may be wrong. [and yes, i am not currently under f12. having too many problems with kde at this time.] -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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