Try fdisk -l. Will list all drives connected. Or dmesg | grep /dev/sd
Tommy Craddock
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On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
wrote:
> Folks:
>
> You now how externally connected drives and such, connected by USB
> show
> up as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc? Is there a program somewhere in Linux
> which maps out what devices end up as /dev/sdX? lsusb gives voluminous
> details, but doesn't appear to give me a clue whether a device will
> end
> up as /dev/sda or /dev/sdg or what. Currently, if I plug an external
> USB
> hard drive in, I have to attempt to mount each /dev/sdX device until I
> find the one I just mounted.
>
> Any bright ideas?
>
> Paul
>
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