[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

Justin Haygood jhaygood at spsu.edu
Sun Oct 1 19:43:45 EDT 2006


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Chris Paquin wrote:
> Does anyone know why this would do this? This is an external drive in an
> enclosure. I plug it in and bam, two icons appear on my fedora desktop
> for the new media device. One obviously is useless but cannot be deleted
> or moved to trash as I get the error "failed to mount device".
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
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/dev/sda --> drive itself
/dev/sda1 --> partition on that drive

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