James A. Peltier wrote:
Tim McGeary wrote:
Hi all,
As a disclaimer, I'm new to this list and very green administering
CentOS. I run it on my test servers and do very basic networking and
server administration (most users, permissions, and web app stuff).
I have a backup server that I am using rsync to collect important
in-process file for our digital library from both Windows and Linux
servers, as well as a specific applications which are updated on a
separate test server.
This backup server ran out of space and I have no more internal slots
available to add another disk, so I bought a 750 GB Seagate FreeAgent
external USB hard drive. I've seen some various issues out there
about how Seagate FA HDs go into sleep mode when used in the manner I
want to, but all of the people posting about that seemed to be able
to mount theirs with no problem.
I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l
doesn't show it at all. I was trying to mount and partition it using
Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to
mount and partition it. How is the best way to figure that out?
This particular server is running CentOS 4.
Thanks,
Tim
If it's a brand new drive it will not have a valid partition table. A
simple sudo /sbin/fdisk -l will show all drives and their partition
tables. The one with an invalid partition table is the one you're
interested in.
Sorry, just read again and noticed that fdisk did not show you anything. :(
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