Adding a external USB drive

[Keith Miller]

I am trying to add a new 2TB USB drive for backups
I have plugged it in and see no additional devices added to /dev right now there are only 4 (sda-sda3) none are a 2tb usb shown below.
sda3 is my Proxmox o/s as you can tell



below is an ls of my /dev drive showing the sda-sda3

can you assist with adding the additional drive

Keith

 

[aaron]

What does dmesg say after you added the drive? Run it as dmesg -w to see live what is going on while you add the drive.

This should give you a hint if a USB device is detected and if there might be a problem.