Accessing external storage devices from the console?

Xs1t0ry · 2007-07-02 04:42:14

Hi there,

I was wondering how to access external storage devices (namely a USB flash drive) from the terminal. I am not very familiar with ext3 and do not know what the device would be named as. Would us -ls in /dev find me it by any chance? Input is appreciated and any tips or tricks for doing this as well!

Thanks

wrm · 2007-07-02 05:33:02

Hi,

when you plug in some external usb device like USB Flash Drive, you can use "dmesg" command and if the device if recognized correctly you'll see whether the device is assigned sdXY or hdXY.
By the way, ext3 got nothing to do with it, udev manages\assigns nodes of the devices.

hacosta · 2007-07-02 07:40:06

after you know what is the name of the device assigned (probably sdb1 if you have 1 hard drive) you need to mount it.. use the command mount /dev/sdXY /dir/that/exists... there you had acces a storage device from the console (:

Xs1t0ry · 2007-07-02 14:55:34

Thanks!

ezzetabi · 2007-07-02 17:00:03

If you want to be able of do that from user pmount may also help.

Xs1t0ry · 2007-07-02 22:43:34

As in, without su/not logged in as root?

lloeki · 2007-07-02 22:57:03

$ pacman -Ss pmount
extra/pmount 0.9.13-4
    mount removable devices as normal user

if not in fstab (it should not anymore anyway), the mount will end up in /media/${label}||${devicenode}

Last edited by lloeki (2007-07-02 22:58:57)

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#1 2007-07-02 04:42:14

Accessing external storage devices from the console?

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Re: Accessing external storage devices from the console?

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