Re: which drive is it?

[Yuandan Zhang <yzhang4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

try to use
dmesg to see what USB is connected to sda1 etc, then you know where this 
usb is mounted to


Scott wrote:

> V Krish wrote:
>
> > I have three external USB drives connected to an AMD
> > machine running FC3. These are mounted as follows:
> > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb1
> > /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb2
> > /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/usb3
> > Is there some way to figure out which physical drive
> > is mounted on /mnt/usb2 so I can pull that one out
> > after a umount (short of disconnecting each in turn)?
> > Thank you,
> > Krish
> >  
>     Check out the udev help files:  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/.
> Briefly, you can write a rule so that a particular drive is always
> mounted the same way either by partition name or drive name (there are 
> other options too, but I haven't needed them!)
>
> Scott