On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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.
If you've labeled all your partitions, then
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/
should do it.
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