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[ILUG] USB stick mount - which device letter/number?

[ILUG] USB stick mount - which device letter/number?

Peter McEvoy pete at yerma.org
Mon Nov 29 13:05:53 GMT 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:56:01PM +0000, John A. Kinsella wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm sure there is a simple explanation?
> 
> When I mount my usb stick I just enter (as root) 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flash
> 
> but how do I know which letter/number?


Try cat /proc/scsi/scsi , the information after Host: should tell you
what device its using, if it says scsi0 , its /dev/sda , if its says
scsi1 , its /dev/sdb etc. Once you know that, you can fdisk -l /dev/sda
to see the partitions.

HTH

-- 
Pete



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