On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:22:25AM -0800, Radha Mohan wrote: > Hi , > > How can I know the name of usb HDD or mass-storage device and its > partition on the linux machine without help of "dmesg"? Suppose I have > connected a Kingston 1GB pendrive to my system I should be able to > know the name of device connected as "Kingston mass storage drive" and > its partition is "/dev/sda1"
Use 'udevinfo' it will show up this kind of information: $ udevinfo --query=all --name=sdb1 P: /block/sdb/sdb1 N: sdb1 S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Mini_20041100831b0d536fba-part1 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.2-usb-0:2.3:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 S: disk/by-uuid/3B69-1AFD S: disk/by-label/GREGKH-GIG E: ID_VENDOR=SanDisk E: ID_MODEL=Cruzer_Mini E: ID_REVISION=0.1 E: ID_SERIAL=SanDisk_Cruzer_Mini_20041100831b0d536fba E: ID_TYPE=disk E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.2-usb-0:2.3:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem E: ID_FS_TYPE=vfat E: ID_FS_VERSION=FAT16 E: ID_FS_UUID=3B69-1AFD E: ID_FS_LABEL=GREGKH-GIG E: ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=GREGKH-GIG Hope this helps, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
