Seeking unmounted hard drive.

[blackbelt_jones]

Is there a command line utility which lists the name of an unmounted hard drive or device (hda1, sdb2, etc.) ? As far as I can tell, konqueror no longer supplies this information in KDE4, and neither does Dolphin... although Dolphin will automount the device, but I prefer to manually mount added drives so I can reliably use prescripted fluxbox commands.

[infiniphunk]

dude, what you're looking for is:
fdisk -l

(as root, of course :))

cheers

[blackbelt_jones]

Well, I hope that I was as helpful to you as you were to me. Thanks!

Wait a minute... it's not picking up the USB device.

[blackbelt_jones]

Ah there it is! You just have to plug it in and replug it a few times, and wait a good sixty seconds. Pretty much how it works with konqueror with this machine.

[saikee]

No need to do plugging and unplugging, which can damage the content of the device.

Type "fdisk -l" and use the direction key to recall and repeat the command a few times should normally do it.

If in doubt about a device just "unount" it first, using either the hardware device name like /dev/sda1 or the mounted directory name like /media/disk, and the "mount" it again.

[cybertron]

Also, a USB drive will generally show up in dmesg when you plug it in. It will tell you which sd* it's been assigned and what partitions are available on it.