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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0509151242460.29648-100000@kegger.national-security.net>
Date: Thu Sep 15 21:09:00 2005
From: fd at ew.nsci.us (fd@...nsci.us)
Subject: Re: Full-Disclosure Digest, Vol 7, Issue 25
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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