How can I find out the name of a device?

Norrin · 08-17-2003, 09:44 PM

I have a second HDD on a SCSI card. I'd like to know how to find out the device name for it. I'm trying to mount it, but I have no idea what the device name is.

Any help would be appreciated.

michaelk · 08-17-2003, 09:51 PM

Did you look at Redhat's hardware detection GUI?

Is it partitioned and formated?

SCSI hard drives are /dev/sda, /dev/sdb ...

Norrin · 08-17-2003, 09:59 PM

ok, I just tried mouting it, but it wouldn't let me mount. IT said NTFS (because that's what I specified) is not supported by the kernel.

This is exactly what I typed, tell me if it's right:

mount -t NTFS /dev/sda /home/norrin/scsi

Is that ok? It also might be FAT32 or FAT, I really can't remember what it was. What are the different file system types?

Norrin · 08-17-2003, 10:09 PM

Alright, it's fat32. What do I type for the filesystem type?

michaelk · 08-17-2003, 10:13 PM

FAT32 filesystem type is vfat.

See man pages for mount for filesystem types and options.

Skyline · 08-17-2003, 10:14 PM

Norrin · 08-17-2003, 10:22 PM

Thanks everyone! I finally got it working. In the end, I was actually naming the device wrong. I was trying to mount /dev/sda, but it was actually called /dev/sda1. Thanks!