On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peer Janssen wrote: > I never found information about the following recurrent question of mine > either: > If a plug in an USB storage device, it has a /dev/sg<...> assigned to > it. But which one? I need to know this mapping in order to mount it. I > always deduce this device's name from the syslog, which works but is a > bit of a PITA, so I always wondered if there is no other way to get this > info, namely something like lsusb. lsusb, which would be the logical > place to look for it, doesn't give away this info, at least not in an > easily recognizable form (e.g. I never figured it out). sg_scan and such > didn't do the trick for me either, although I might have missed > something here.
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