Re: listing of USB hardrive

Steve wrote:
hi,

I have a new USB harddrive
I need to format or more preciasely, to do a fdisk. Want to change the
NTFS -> EXT3

For this, I need to invoke something like : fdisk /dev/sda2
BUT, on machines running SATA drives, there are seen as sdax drives..
Is there a possibility to see WHICH /dev/sdax, correspond to my specific
harddrive ?

I did : lsusb
But doesn't show me anything interesting.... :-(

Thanks

No, you will do something like "fdisk /dev/sda@

Try doing "fdisk -l" to get a list of the drives and partitions, and "df" to get a list of what is already mounted where. Contemporary RedHat kernels do not contain NTFS drivers, but they're certainly available and compatible with RHEL. (CentOS publishes them under the "extras" repository, and they're pretty easy to use.)
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