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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
