econ

Hello all.

I want to format an external hard disk with the 'mke2fs [options] device [blocks] mkfs.ext2 [options] device [blocks]' command, but I can't determine the device name from my dmesg output:

usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK2018GAS Rev: Q2.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdd: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdd: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
sdd: sdd1
Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
SELinux: initialized (dev sdd1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
usb 1-7: USB disconnect, address 5

I believe sdd is the device, sdd1 would be my first partition I think -- which looks to be already formatted as vfat. But I am looking for someone else to tell me yes that's correct to be Sure I don't interpret the dmesg output incorrrectly.

cheers

vvaldir

sdd is the device, sdd1 would be the first partition -- which looks to be already formatted as vfat.