On 05/02/2010 09:16:09 PM, john wendel wrote: > On 05/02/2010 08:14 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > When I plug in an eSATA drive, it is assigned to sdb or sdd > depending > > on whether other devices are installed. The device is reported by > the > > kernel (/var/log/messages), but I'd like to be able to find this > > information without processing the log. Any pointers? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Look at /dev/disks. Mounted disks show up here. You can also just > compare /dev before and after mounting. There's probably a gui, but I > don't bother. > > I also label the disk partitions and mount by label so I don't need > to > > know the device name. > My original post was somewhat unclear. The question was which device is assigned to the disk when it's plugged in so I can know which device to mount. It appears that if I look at /dev/disk/by-label, the device name -- Sansa\x20e250 for example, is a symbolic link to the device -- ../../ sdb1 for example. I can then mount /dev/sdb1. Thanks to all who replied. Geoffrey -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
