Debian Linux and VMWare: drive mapping

[Syngin]

Hi guys,

This is a a question that sort of straddles technologies. Hopefully someone here might be able to shed some light on the Linux side of things.

I've got a Debian Lenny VM running under ESXi 4.1. It is housed on datastore1. I've created a datastore2 that is 200 gb on a separate SATA drive. Via vSphere, I've given the VM access to this datastore. (When I did something similar to this on our fiber channel SAN, I used raw device mapping and the drive automatically showed up as a new drive in a Windows Server VM)

My question is, how do I go about mounting this new drive / datastore under Linux? What form would it show up as? Something similar to standard IDE drives? (/dev/hdb)

The info in vSphere for the drive are as follows:

• Hard Disk2
• Virtual Disk
• Device Node: SCSI (0:1)
• Independent
• Persistent

Thanks guys.

Just a side thought, perhaps its time to add a virtualization forum here?

[Syngin]

Ahh, fdisk -l can see it.

Shows up as /dev/sdb

Problem solved.