Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk: /etc/fstab was mucked; simply and don't fight defaults

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > >  > "sfdisk -l" is handy for debugging these sorts of things.
 > > 
 > > Er, how does that work if the system currently running (the installed
 > > system on the boot HDD) is not the system doing these sorts of things
 > > (the installer running from floppy or initrd)?
 > 
 > Works great wherever you use it.

Only if the "where" you use it in is in the configuration of the
"where" you want to know about!  This is pretty clearly not the case
for David, whose hardware keeps moving from one device to another
because he keeps plugging and unplugging it, and whose device special
files seem to be found in odd places (though not at the present time,
just to confuse matters further).  That is relevant, as it succeeded
in confusing not only him but a couple of those who presumed to advise
him.

It would be a good idea for him to do "sfdisk -l | lpr" or the
equivalent once he gets his system into a happy state, for sure.