Re: Which device assigned to removable media

2010-05-03 Thread Geoffrey Leach
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

Re: Which device assigned to removable media

2010-05-03 Thread g
Geoffrey Leach wrote: snip 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