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Apr 5, 2011

I have a 1T Western Digital external hard drive. As usual my first thing to do was use cfdisk to wipe out the existing partitions and create new ones. When I plug it in, it mounts a "partition" which does not show up in fdisk, and it mounts it as if it were a CD (ie. /dev/srx instead of /dev/sdx) labeled WD Smart Media or something like that.

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Nov 15, 2010

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Mar 23, 2010

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Code:
sundar@sundar-sundar:~$ fdisk -l
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
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