On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 11:31 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > The alias '/dev/dvd' is for dvd. What is the alias for pen drives? They'll be another pseudo-SCSI drive (/dev/sd something). Whether it's sda, sdb, etc., will depend on what other drives are on your system, and how the interfaces are managed. This system has two internal hard drive, they're /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I'd expect that plugging in a USB flash drive would be /dev/sdc, but sometimes it's a higher letter. I haven't worked that one out yet. Another of my systems has one internal hard drive, and one of those multi-card readers (SD, Compact, etc.). If I add a USB flash drive, it gets a much higher letter than I expect. I imaging that's due to the multi-card reader grabbing some devices, even if there's no memory cards plugged into it. This unpredicability is why labels are so useful. You can label a drive with a name, and always find it by that name (later on), no matter where it's plugged in. If you don't want to use labels, your other option is making UDEV/HAL rules. You'd pick something identifying about your device (e.g. that flash drive, or all flash drives), and assign them a device name of your own choosing. I used to do that with my Polaroid camera. If I plugged it in it be /media/usbdisk, and I couldn't tell it apart from flash drive plugged in at the same time (there'd be two /media/usbdisks, and I'd have to remember which was plugged in first). -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
