sidux:/# mount /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) /ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=1660160k,mode=755) /ramdisk/home on /home type none (rw,bind) /UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/SIDUX=ro,delete=whiteout) /dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) /dev/loop0 on /SIDUX type squashfs (ro) tmpfs on /UNIONFS/lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) /dev/mapper/nvidia_ebeaibja1 on /UNIONFS/media/raid type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/sde1 on /UNIONFS/media/disk type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower) sidux:/# sidux:/# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 121604 976784098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/dm-0: 1000.2 GB, 1000237383680 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121605 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-0p1 * 1 121604 976784098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/dm-1: 1000.2 GB, 1000226916864 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121603 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sde: 999 MB, 999816704 bytes 4 heads, 8 sectors/track, 61023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 32 * 512 = 16384 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 * 1 61024 976379+ b W95 FAT32 sidux:/# sidux:/# dmesg | tail sde: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08 sde: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sde: 1952767 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000 MB) sde: Write Protect is off sde: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08 sde: assuming drive cache: write through sde: sde1 sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sde sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete sidux:/#