On 08/19/2010 12:38 PM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:37 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> From the very basics, could you please tell me sequentially:-
>
> i) How to know the partition name while inserting usb pen drive?
> Running "fdisk -l" or "fdisk" yields, but with "sdb"
not written 1 or
> 2 at the end of 'sdb', and for sure, 'sdb' is the pen drive
partition
> name. Or the command, "dmesg | tail"?
Looking at the tail end of dmesg moments after you've inserted a drive
is an easy way to see where the system finds it. And you don't need to
be the root user to read that info.
With fdisk, you have to be familiar with all your drives on the system,
so you can tell apart the newly inserted one from the others. That's
probably not too hard to do with a single USB flash drive, but gets
complex with multiple drives.
With gparted, you can see the size of each drive when you go to
select the drive to work on - it works as long as you do not have 2
drives of the same size plugged in.
Mikkel
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