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#1 2009-03-30 18:02:23
- wench
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Locating & Mounting a USB stick from the CLI
Hi all, apologies for the newb question, but how would I go about locating my USB stick from the command line. My wireless drivers are on it, and as such need to get access to it pretty sharpish... I'm happy with how to mount it manually once I've located it, etc..
Cheers in advance..
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#2 2009-03-30 18:16:23
- Wintervenom
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Re: Locating & Mounting a USB stick from the CLI
ls /dev/sd*, insert drive, wait a while and ls /dev/sd* again, and more than likely, that new sd* device that showed up is your flash drive.
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#4 2009-03-30 18:21:46
- rson451
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Re: Locating & Mounting a USB stick from the CLI
Another way to do this is to
$ watch dmesgthen plug in the usb drive. The device name should show up soon after plugging the device in.
Last edited by rson451 (2009-03-30 18:22:12)
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#5 2009-03-30 18:32:03
- perbh
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Re: Locating & Mounting a USB stick from the CLI
- and yet another way ...
dmesg|tail
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#6 2009-03-30 19:19:11
- Inxsible
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Re: Locating & Mounting a USB stick from the CLI
yet another way :
plug in the drive and then issue
fdisk -lgiven without sudo, will list drives not owned by root (mostly external). Give it with sudo and it will list both(internal and external).
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-30 19:20:23)
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