Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as > > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. > > Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the > name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`. > Yes, or stranger things -- which is why 'cat /proc/partitions' is first on my list of instructions. -dsr-