Finding /dev entry of USB disk

[Bo Grimes]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 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*

This may not help, but I'm going to just thow it out there in case it 
does.  I'm sure there are easier solutions, but I don't know them.

Once before I had broadband at home (got it just two weeks ago, yea!) I 
downloaded a DVD ISO of Mandravia at work.  I didn't have a DVD burner at 
work, so I was going to bring it home.  I tried to copy it over to an 8 
gig usb drive, but it wouldn't.

In researching it I found out that FAT32 couldm't handle a single file 
that big, and most usb drive are FAT32, I think, or something close.

OK, to the point.  I needed to change the partition on the USB drive, and 
I did so with the live version of GParted. 
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

I changed it to NTFS, I think, because I had to burn on a Vista system as 
I was going to install Mandravia on a fresh drive and had no Linux tools.

So, long story short, even though I am sure there are better ways, I think 
that if you burned a CD of GParted Live and booted from it with your usb 
drive plugged in that you would be able to use it to not only format the 
drive but put whatever file system you wanted on it.

Sorry if this long story proves pointless and unuseful.