Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 05:40:06 Felix Miata wrote:
> 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...
My wheezy install does not have this command. The OP might not either,
but installing it shouldn't be that difficult.
>
> # blkid /dev/sdg
>
> # mount -t auto (or the type reported by blkid)
With lsscsi to help id the device, this is possibly a faster method than
mine.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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