On 08Dec2011 09:27, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: | > | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: | > | > 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. | > | | > | I tried dmesg first but never found anything useful in it. | > | > There should be a sequence like the below when you plug in a USB drive: [...] | > And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. | > | > You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in | > dmesg. | > | Great, but could the displaying of the information be made more obscure? Sure, but you'd need to recompile your kernel. (If you do, maybe turn on the timestamps option, off by default - it drives me mad not knowing _when_ a message landed in dmesg.) I'm sure there's some cool udev event watcher widget somewhere that will pop up a growl-like alert for you. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The wicked man shall be punished for his own wickedness, for he shall never find inner peace and will seldom be given the really good tables at tearooms. - Gardner -- 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
