Not Seeing Partitions on USB Disks
I have a 750 GB WD MyBook drive that I move lots of data around on, specifically from work to home and back. Today I wanted to hook it up to my development Linux box. The last time I did this I walked up and plugged it into the front USB ports on the machine (a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4). No sweat. Today was different, though. For whatever reason the partition on the disk didn’t get picked up automatically. I plugged the drive in and got /dev/sdt, but no /dev/sdt1, though fdisk showed it there. Um, WTF. After a few minutes of futzing around with it, unplugging it, plugging it back in, flailing with pvscan, …