External cases for internal IDE drives; LiveCDs

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:07:18PM -0400, moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote

> How do you figure out which block device it is, when you want to mount
> it?

  The hard way...
  - as root, execute "fdisk -l" *BEFORE* connecting the device
  - as root, execute "fdisk -l"  *AFTER* connecting the device

  You should see an extra device "/dev/sda" or whatever.  Then you'd
have to manually mount it, which can only be done by root, unless you
have an entry for the device in /etc/fstab.  You're better off writing
udev rules to create a name that is always associated with that device.

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