How to know what is the device corresponding to a certain external disk?

[Ian Chapman]

On 06/03/2012 09:04 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> How to know what is the device corresponding to a certain external
> disk? I would like to format it and avoiding any undesirable
> formatting of other disks.
>
> Thanks in advance,

lsscsi is a handy alternative to running dmesg or checking 
/var/log/messages.

You may have to:

yum install lsscsi

first


-- 
Ian Chapman.