Determinig removable devices in shell scripts?

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Sep 7 15:23:42 UTC 2010


Hi,

is there an easy way to determine in a shell script if a device  
(da/ada) is removable (USB memory stick, eSATA connection)? I was  
thinking more or less about something like "sysctl kern.disks".

Bye,
Alexander.

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