Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/07/2011 07:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to > mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't > figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on > fedoraforum had an answer in just a f

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-09 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/09/2011 01:54 AM, jdow wrote: > On 2011/12/08 16:56, Craig White wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in dmesg

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/08 16:56, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. >>> >>> You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in >>> dmesg. >>> >> Great, but could the displaying of

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. > > > > You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in > > dmesg. > > > Great, but could the displaying of the information be made more obscure?

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Dec2011 09:27, Aaron Konstam wrote: | On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff wrote: | > | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: | > | > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin | > | > up every sleepi

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff wrote: > | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > | > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin > | > up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/08/2011 04:17 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 12/07/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin >> up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg >> won't do that. >> > > That's only true of fdisk -l

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/07/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 12/07/2011 12:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to >> mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't >> figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A que

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff wrote: | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: | > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin | > up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg | > won't do that. | | I tried dmesg first but never found

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On 07/12/11 14:18, Robert Nichols wrote: > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin > up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg > won't do that. > If you can't boot, a spinning disk may be the least concern. -- Regards, Frank Murph

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin > up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg > won't do that. I tried dmesg first but never found anything useful in it. -- users mailing list use

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/07/2011 12:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to > mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't > figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on > fedoraforum had an answer in just a few

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Rouch
On 7 December 2011 09:43, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 07/12/11 06:19, Joe Zeff wrote: >> As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to >> mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't >> figure out how to work out just which device name to use.  A questio

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On 07/12/11 06:19, Joe Zeff wrote: > As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to > mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't > figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on > fedoraforum had an answer in just a few hours

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-07 Thread fedora
dmesg On 2011-12-07 07:19, Joe Zeff wrote: > fdisk -l -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask aw

A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-06 Thread Joe Zeff
As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on fedoraforum had an answer in just a few hours, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that