Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc
Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100):
One aspect of Debian I've never managed to 'get', is how to 'see' any
temporarily plugged-in USB storage device, from the command line or in
mc. The machines in question are using Wheezy.
I often use a machine (with only cli) to download overnight - this
works well. But when I insert (say) a 2G or 4G USB storage, I cannot
'find' any mount referring to the USB storage.
I assume that I have to mount the USB storage, but where should I find
the reference for the physical device to mount? Best of all would be
to make this process 'automatic', if I could.
Not all the devices are formatted with vfat; I think some use ext(x),
and some are dd'd ISOs. Because labelling these devices is not very
practical, I'd like to be able to plug them in and check what they
contain - before, perhaps, overwriting them with something new.
I'd be interested in how other users organise this but, essentially,
I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to
use in a mount command. And, as a secondary question (there are two
points on offer for this one), how to mount it without knowing the
device's fs.
# lsscsi
...
[9:0:0:0] disk FLASH Drive SM_USB20 1100 /dev/sdg...
# blkid /dev/sdg
# mount -t auto (or the type reported by blkid)
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