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Re: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

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On 16-05-18 10:30:34, Ron Leach wrote:
> 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
> 

While not automatic, insert usb, demesg | tail and then pmount sdbX 
and df for checking available space simplifies my life greatly. 

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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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