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How to check how many External Hard Drives are connected to Linux Server

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – Is there a way to distinguish between the Internal Hard drives and External Hard drives. Actually i need to see how many External hardrives do we have and to which server are they connected . This is the Screenshot i took and by judging by its name SDE is external hard drive. But im not sure . So help me out. Further actions Ok now i used lsusb and it said Western Digital Drive connected and its Drive No is SDE. But by using dmesg it said that sdb is also a removable disk. Any suggestions 'sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb Vendor: WDC Model: WD2500YD-01NVB1 Rev: (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 12/19/2012

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I'm looking at getting an external hard drive for my computer, to put the Ubuntu OS on it. I understand these will handle the operating system perfectly well.

I am a novice user who upgraded to 11.10. In my previous version of Ubuntu, icons of my external drives(2) were visible and I could mount and navigate these drives. I cannot locate my external hard drives with 11.10. I have searched the questions with similar titles and have not found a solution.

The command: sudo fdisk -l does list both external hard drives.

Is it possible to set up the standard backup system in SBS 2011 (or Server 2008 R2) to use an internal drive as a destination as well as external drives?

Before you say yes, from my tests and from what I've read on the web, backups with internal drives included as a destination always seems to prefer the internal drive over connected external ones.

My media folder looks like this:

I have 2 external hard drives in use, HD1 and USB-HDD-2, the WD was connected once for backup purposes but is still listed here.

And why is the cdrom listed twice ?

How can I

1. rename the hard drives 2. fix this list so it only shows the actual devices available

I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto an external hard drive connected by USB to my laptop:

sdd partition

Windoze still resides on the box's internal hard drive:

sda2 partition

I also partitioned the internal hard drive so that I have a repository where my documents etc can be accessed by either linux or windoze:

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:newbie:

I have a 1tb external USB hard drive. i am running ubuntu 10.04 'lucid lynx' whenever i connect the external USB hard drive, it is connected correctly

but when my screensaver get turn on or i disconnect my external USB hard drive and reconnect it.

computer answers 'unable to mount external USB hard drive'

I am trying to help out a friend with an odd issue. He has two external hard drives he was using as storage on a I-Mac. He had several terabytes of information on each drive, then one day the drives didn't show up on his mac.

My laptop hard disk got crashed. But until I replace I want to do my home works. So I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on 16GB Kingston DT101 G2 pen drive.

My question is, using my pen drive as my regular disk for 1 or 2 weeks is that OK ? Will I get any problems in my pen drive? After I replace my hard disk can I use that pen drive as normal ( just assume I will use my laptop at least 12 hours per day).

Hello, I am new here, though I have been using fedora linux quite happily for the past 3 months and I am having a problem with one of my external USB hard drives by Toshiba.