On Thu 03 Oct 2024 at 20:26:55 (-0700), Will Mengarini wrote: > The old HDD is mostly ext3; there was also an > ext2 boot partition, and a swap partition. But > the new Debian shows nothing new in `df`. Is > there some other command I should use to probe for > whether Debian knows there's a HDD connected by USB?
Take a look at /dev/disk/… where the names of the next level of directories are self-explanatory. The files themselves are all symlinks pointing to the kernel's device names. Also /run/udev/data/b… where spinning rust disks are b8:N, and N is a power of two for a disk, then N+1, N+2 etc for the partitions. SSDs will be some other number like, say, b259:0. The file contents are what udev has discovered. Cheers, David.
