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

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:59 -0400, Chris Paquin wrote:
>> Here you go.
>>
>> [root at jupiter ~]# cat /proc/partitions
>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>
>>    3     0  160086528 hda
>>    3     1     104391 hda1
>>    3     2  157943047 hda2
>>    3     3    2032222 hda3
>>    3    64   29316672 hdb
>>    3    65   29310561 hdb1
>>    8     0   40146623 sda
>>    8     1   40136008 sda1
>>
>> Sounds like Justin is correct about the partitions. However my camera
>> and jumpdrive do not behave in the same manner.
> 
> This get interesting.  I see no reason why sda and sda1 should both be
> appearing on your desktop when only sda1 is mounted.  
> 
> Grasping for straws now.... Are you by chance exporting
> (NFS) /media/disk to other users?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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Odds are that hotplug is scanning the device when it is plugged.  Then 
dynamically creating devices and associated links onto the desktop.  If 
I remember correctly, this is also the way knoppix used to behave.  The 
script hotplug uses should be suspect.  Sorry I'm short on details, just 
an idea.

Calvin...