On 2009/05/06 23:36 (GMT+0200) Per Inge Oestmoen composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Or, as alternative to listing devices in /dev/disk as others have suggested, do 'cat /proc/partitions'.
linux-k9na:/home/siberia # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name
8 0 117220824 sda 8 1 8225248 sda1 8 2 5566522 sda2 8 3 12289725 sda3 8 4 91136745 sda4 8 16 312571224 sdb 8 17 2104483 sdb1 8 18 20972857 sdb2 8 19 289491300 sdb3 8 32 2147483648 sdc
The disk is sdc.
So, you have no partitions on it, and thus you can't yet do any formatting, or "see" it normally. To "see" it currently you need a partitioning tool, so next step should be to create partitioning with such a tool. If YaST2 can't figure it out due to the largish 1T size, the USB interposition, or some bug, then use fdisk, cfdisk, parted, qparted, gparted, DFSee (the only tool I ever use to create partitions regardless of OS), Ranish, or any of several other tools designed for the task. The following one must or can operate from CD/DVD boot: http://gpartedclonz.tuxfamily.org/ http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ http://www.dfsee.com/ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ (contains KDE3, fdisk, cfdisk, parted, qparted & gparted in 5.1.1 CD version) -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org