[sclug] How to find which /dev/xxx a usb device is on? (No UUID required)

[John Stumbles]

Robin Lewis wrote:

> How about /dev/disk/by-id/usb*?

Ah yes - that would have done it. I've done it with udev now (thanks 
Adam) on the desktop machine, might see about that for the lappy

lsl /dev/disk/by-id/usb*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-22 22:01 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_CF_Reader_058F312D81B
-> ../../memory_card_CF
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-22 22:01 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_MS_Reader_058F312D81B ->
../../memory_card_MS
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-21 21:06 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_SD_Reader_058F312D81B ->
../../memory_card_SD
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-22 22:01 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_SM_Reader_058F312D81B ->
../../memory_card_SM
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-06-21 21:54 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_3200_2CAHYM76 -> ../../
backupdrive
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-06-21 21:54 
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_3200_2CAHYM76-part1 ->
../../backupdrive


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John Stumbles                                       http://yaph.org.uk
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