[ale] External USB drive is detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1

[fd0man at gmail.com (Michael B. Trausch)]

Justin Haygood wrote:
> Chris Paquin wrote:
>>> Does anyone know why this would do this? This is an external drive in an
>>> enclosure. I plug it in and bam, two icons appear on my fedora desktop
>>> for the new media device. One obviously is useless but cannot be deleted
>>> or moved to trash as I get the error "failed to mount device".
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>>>
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> 
> /dev/sda --> drive itself
> /dev/sda1 --> partition on that drive
> 

The really curious thing is, why is the /dev/sda icon showing up on the
desktop?  Since the device contains a partition table, that means that
the root device itself does not contain a valid filesystem... if instead
of a partition table, the device had a filesystem on the entire device,
that would be different; but, IIRC, USB devices do not do that because
some operating systems puke without a partition table.

	- Mike

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