Re: Re: Full-disclosure Digest, Vol 7, Issue 25

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peer Janssen wrote:
> I never found information about the following recurrent question of mine 
> either:
> If a plug in an USB storage device, it has a /dev/sg<...> assigned to 
> it. But which one? I need to know this mapping in order to mount it. I 
> always deduce this device's name from the syslog, which works but is a 
> bit of a PITA, so I always wondered if there is no other way to get this 
> info, namely something like lsusb. lsusb, which would be the logical 
> place to look for it, doesn't give away this info, at least not in an 
> easily recognizable form (e.g. I never figured it out). sg_scan and such 
> didn't do the trick for me either, although I might have missed 
> something here.


Write your own lssd?

echo 'dmesg | grep sd[abcdefg]' > /bin/lssd ; chmod 755 /bin/lssg


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