ExampleForChooseADevice

HOWTO guides sometimes need to tell the user to find a specific physical device (e.g. to format it). This template provides standard instructions:

Typing the wrong device name can destroy all information on your hard disk, so follow these instructions to select the right device name: <syntaxhighlight lang="shell">

1. Make sure your device is disconnected or turned off, then do:

ls /dev/disk/by-id/*

If you did everything right, the head command should only work when the device is plugged in. You can now use $TARGET_DEVICE instead of the name of your device in future commands.

The instructions below often refer to $TARGET_DEVICE. If you create a variable as described above, you can paste those exact instructions. Otherwise, change $TARGET_DEVICE to your actual device name.