Finding out which device to mount after plugging in a USB thumb
drive
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed May 11 05:51:08 PDT 2005
Juho Vuori <juho.vuori at kepa.fi> writes:
> Hello,
>
> If I plug in a USB thumb drive, which becomes, say, umass0. Normally
> something like /dev/da0 will also be created amd slices of that device
> may be mounted. But is there a API for finding out what is the
> corresponding block device for umass devices ? The device driver
> writes that to syslog, but reading logs for something like that is
> quite clumsy.
You can always wire it down if you need that to be predictable.
See: "man scsi".
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