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

2016-05-18 Thread Jonas Hedman
On 16-05-18 19:10:08, Ron Leach wrote: > I didn't recognise pmount, mentioned early in the thread, and tried man > pmount to check what it would do and how to use it, but nothing came up. > So, from an earlier post in the thread, I used dmesg | tail, and then mount > at a mount point under /mnt. I

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

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
First, may I, at the top of the post and before replying to Brian, acknowledge the plethora of information in all the thread replies. I really would like to express my thanks to so many users who took the time to help explain and suggest. On 18/05/2016 17:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 18 May 2016

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

2016-05-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 May 2016 at 09:33:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2016 05:30:34 Ron Leach wrote: > [...Snip...] > > 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 co

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

2016-05-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 05:40:06 Felix Miata wrote: > Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): > > 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

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

2016-05-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 05:30:34 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 (w

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

2016-05-18 Thread Felix Miata
Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 12:14 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to use in a mount command. # lsscsi ... [9:0:0:0] disk FLASH Drive SM_USB20 1100 /dev/sdg... #

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

2016-05-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Some of what we are explaining has to do with how one sets up their /etc/fstab configuration but usb drives generate a predictable set of messages in /var/log/syslog. The particular details change based upon what has already been installed in one's file system, but if things are working rig

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

2016-05-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
lsusb -v may help. On Wed, 18 May 2016, Ron Leach wrote: Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 05:30:34 From: Ron Leach To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc Resent-Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:31:05 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-

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

2016-05-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:43:03 +0100, Brian wrote: > > You have to install lsscsi to use it. However, what is on every Debian > system is the utils-linux package and it has lsblk. util-linux.

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

2016-05-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 May 2016 at 12:14:00 +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote: > >Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): > >>I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to > >>use in a mount command. > > > ># lsscsi > >... > >[9:0:0:0] disk FLA

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

2016-05-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 12:14:00 Ron Leach wrote: > On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote: > > Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): > >> I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to > >> use in a mount command. > > > > # lsscsi > > ... > > [9:0:0:0] disk FL

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

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
On 18/05/2016 10:40, Felix Miata wrote: Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): I'd be grateful for any advice on where to find the physical device to use in a mount command. # lsscsi ... [9:0:0:0] disk FLASH Drive SM_USB20 1100 /dev/sdg... # blkid /dev/sdg # mount -t auto (or the

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

2016-05-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 18 May 2016 10:30:34 Ron Leach wrote: > 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. IIRC, you can use udisks-glue on wheezy. On Jessie

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

2016-05-18 Thread Jonas Hedman
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

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

2016-05-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:30:34AM +0100, 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 [...] I do a 'dmesg | tail' shortly after having in

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

2016-05-18 Thread Felix Miata
Ron Leach composed on 2016-05-18 10:30 (UTC+0100): 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 ove

Something never understood: see USB storage in CLI & mc

2016-05-18 Thread Ron Leach
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