On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:14:00 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote: > >Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): > >>I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to > >>use in a mount command. > > > ># 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) > > Felix, thank you for the (very) prompt reply. It didn't quite work, for me. > > wheezy2:/home/ron# lsscsi > bash: lsscsi: command not found > wheezy2:/home/ron# lsusb > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0781:a7c1 SanDisk Corp. > > As you see, lsscsi does not seem to exist on his machine. One alternative > I've used in other usb contexts, lsusb, sees the device, but without a > /dev/sd... > > Another reply suggested using dmesg output, which I'll try now - and reply > to in a moment.
You have to install lsscsi to use it. However, what is on every Debian system is the utils-linux package and it has lsblk. At its simplest: brian@desktop:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 149.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 16.8G 0 part / ├─sda2 8:2 0 5.6G 0 part /var ├─sda3 8:3 0 1.9G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda4 8:4 0 124.9G 0 part /home sdb 8:16 1 964M 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 1 315M 0 part └─sdb2 8:18 1 320K 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sr1 11:1 1 466.7M 0 rom Or: brian@desktop:~$ lsblk -S NAME HCTL TYPE VENDOR MODEL REV TRAN sda 0:0:0:0 disk ATA SAMSUNG HD160JJ 0-33 sata sdb 47:0:0:0 disk PEAK III Flash Drive 0.00 usb sr0 3:0:0:0 rom MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-587 7S13 ata sr1 4:0:0:0 rom PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110 1.22 ata
