On 08/29/2015 09:45 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:14 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
I was looking for an easier way to tell if my write protect switches
were in the read only position. There are other ways, like trying to
mount it and see what happens, but I would like to get the information
more directly.
Try querying the block device with udevadm(8).
udevadm info -a -n /dev/sdc
Brandon Vincent
Rats!
looking at device
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-4/2-4.2/2-4.2:1.0/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0/block/sdc':
KERNEL=="sdc"
SUBSYSTEM=="block"
DRIVER==""
ATTR{ro}=="1"
ATTR{size}=="61767680"
ATTR{stat}==" 360 3 2904 376 0 0
0 0 0 376 376"
ATTR{range}=="16"
ATTR{discard_alignment}=="0"
ATTR{events}=="media_change"
ATTR{ext_range}=="256"
ATTR{events_poll_msecs}=="-1"
ATTR{alignment_offset}=="0"
ATTR{inflight}==" 0 0"
ATTR{removable}=="1"
ATTR{capability}=="51"
ATTR{events_async}==""
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