lsusb -v may help. On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ron Leach wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 05:30:34
From: Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc
Resent-Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:31:05 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
List, good morning,
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.
regards, Ron
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