Finding /dev entry of USB disk

[charlie derr]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.x) I have a USB disk that I need to format. How
> can I figure out where it is in /dev, in order to format it? In
> Konqueror it is listed as system:/media/sdc1 but there is no /dev/sdc*
> 
> Thanks.
> 


After plugging in the device, go to a terminal (or xterm or konsole or ....) and execute the command:

$ dmesg


and you should see helpful information at the end of the output.


	good luck,
		~c