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

[Richard Corden]

Hey,


"John A. Kinsella" <John.Kinsella at ul.ie> writes:

> 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?
>
> In other words how do I know in advance which of /dev/sda1 ... /dev/sdd4
> to use?

For me dmesg shows the following:

[...]
  Vendor: Sony      Model: MSC-U03           Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[...]


And these work:

  dmesg | grep -A3 'Sony' | grep 'Attached'

The following might work for you:
  
  dmesg | grep -A3 'M-Systems' | grep 'Attached'

Regards,

Richard


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