Am Sonntag, 18. September 2005 11:03 schrieb Theo Schmidt: > I continue to be stumped by USB storage devices in KDE. Only once with some > older version of Knoppix did a USB stick appear automatically on the > desktop when plugged in. I don't need this, but I do need at least to know > under which name the device can be mounted. Even without other SCSI > devices, the devices seem to vary from sda1 through sda5 to sdd1. I did > once in a fit of frenzy create 20 different lines in /etc/fstab in order to > find the right device, but it didn't really work. Years ago I could find > the right device in /proc somewhere, but this no longer seems possible.
That's how I currently do this (Debian Etch with X and KDE from Sid): $ cat /proc/partitions [...] 8 0 256000 sda 8 1 255984 sda1 $ pmount /dev/sda1 That's it, it is now available as /media/sda1. No fstab entries, not root login, no udev and with linux-2.6.11. Instead, you can also look at the dmesg output. Or you become root and look at: sg_scan -i sg_map -sd However: linux-2.6 brings you some advantage: if you only have one memory stick to take care of, it is always the same device (for me: /dev/sda). All this didn't change in quite a while. Personally, I like a static /dev. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
