[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Oct 2 14:00:35 EDT 2006


Take a screen shot of the desktop and post a URL for all to see.

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:51 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:59 -0400, Chris Paquin wrote:
> > Here you go.
> > 
> > [root at jupiter ~]# cat /proc/partitions
> > major minor  #blocks  name
> > 
> >    3     0  160086528 hda
> >    3     1     104391 hda1
> >    3     2  157943047 hda2
> >    3     3    2032222 hda3
> >    3    64   29316672 hdb
> >    3    65   29310561 hdb1
> >    8     0   40146623 sda
> >    8     1   40136008 sda1
> > 
> > Sounds like Justin is correct about the partitions. However my camera
> > and jumpdrive do not behave in the same manner.
> 
> This get interesting.  I see no reason why sda and sda1 should both be
> appearing on your desktop when only sda1 is mounted.  
> 
> Grasping for straws now.... Are you by chance exporting
> (NFS) /media/disk to other users?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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