Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:26 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> On 04/21/11 14:45, İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 21, 2011 02:40:36 PM Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> > > When I use one USB port only, I mount it as /dev/sdb1. But for
> > > simultaneously using two or even three ports, which are the /dev
> > > name(s) I have to use?
> > Instead of looking for hardcoded names, look under /dev/disk/by-id so you 
> > can
> > see your disks by id. Or if they have labels /dev/disk/by-label etc.
>
> I plugged in two usb sticks and invoked 'ls /dev/disk/by-id'.
> A list appeared referring to the first stick as
>
> usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0
> usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0-part1
>
> and to the second stick as
>
> usb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0
> usb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0-part1
>
> But that does not give me access to the sticks since these names
> are completely useless because they are no directory names. In
> other words,
> neither /dev/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0
> nor /dev/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0-part1
> nor /dev/usb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0
> nor /dev/sb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0-part1
> nor /dev/disk/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0
> nor /dev/disk/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Disk_00000000000064-0:0-part1
> nor /dev/disk/usb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0
> nor /dev/disk/sb-058f_Spaceloop_8GB_E7B24B26-0:0-part1
> exists.
>
> Anyway thank you, even though your information did not help.

  If you're trying to figure out where the file system is hanging them,
I'd suggest that you try looking in /media.

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