On 12/07/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 12/07/2011 12:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to >> mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't >> figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question on >> fedoraforum had an answer in just a few hours, and I'm almost ashamed to >> admit that I didn't think of it myself. As root, >> >> fdisk -l >> >> will tell you exactly what you need. D'oh! > > An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin > up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg > won't do that. > That's only true of fdisk -l (with no other arguments). The blkid command operates out of a cache so will only spin up drives if run with -p (low-level probe). This also allows users without read access to a block device to retrieve label, file system type & UUIDs. Regards, Bryn. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
