Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

From	Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc
Date	2016-05-18 11:40 +0200
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List, good morning,

One aspect of Debian I've never managed to 'get', is how to 'see' any 
temporarily plugged-in USB storage device, from the command line or in 
mc.  The machines in question are using Wheezy.

I often use a machine (with only cli) to download overnight - this 
works well.  But when I insert (say) a 2G or 4G USB storage, I cannot 
'find' any mount referring to the USB storage.

I assume that I have to mount the USB storage, but where should I find 
the reference for the physical device to mount?  Best of all would be 
to make this process 'automatic', if I could.

Not all the devices are formatted with vfat; I think some use ext(x), 
and some are dd'd ISOs.  Because labelling these devices is not very 
practical, I'd like to be able to plug them in and check what they 
contain - before, perhaps, overwriting them with something new.

I'd be interested in how other users organise this but, essentially, 
I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to 
use in a mount command.  And, as a secondary question (there are two 
points on offer for this one), how to mount it without knowing the 
device's fs.

regards, Ron

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Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-18 11:40 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-18 11:50 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-18 11:50 +0200
    Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-18 13:20 +0200
      Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 13:30 +0200
      Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-18 13:50 +0200
        Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-18 14:00 +0200
      Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-18 14:30 +0200
      Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-18 15:00 +0200
    Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-05-18 15:40 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2016-05-18 12:00 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Jonas Hedman <jonas.hedman@fripost.org> - 2016-05-18 12:00 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-05-18 14:00 +0200
  Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-05-18 15:40 +0200
    Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-18 18:30 +0200
      Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-18 20:20 +0200
        Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Jonas Hedman <jonas.hedman@fripost.org> - 2016-05-18 21:10 +0200

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