[SOLVED]Accessing an usb pendrive

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Re: [SOLVED]Accessing an usb pendrive

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Nothing of this tells you if its a thumbdrive or not. I already told you to read the connection type in /dev/disk/by-id.
But actually there is an even easier way, simply read "dmesg" and scan for "USB Mass Storage device detected".
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Re: [SOLVED]Accessing an usb pendrive

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dmesg is root-only in some systems.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... =842226#15
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Re: [SOLVED]Accessing an usb pendrive

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BrotSagtMist wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:14 pm Nothing of this tells you if its a thumbdrive or not. I already told you to read the connection type in /dev/disk/by-id.
But actually there is an even easier way, simply read "dmesg" and scan for "USB Mass Storage device detected".
I'll search about /dev/disk/by-id.
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Re: [SOLVED]Accessing an usb pendrive

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FYI, dmesg also doesn't seem to give the mountpoint or device path, so that doesn't seem like a solution either - at least for me on Linux Mint, which is based off Debian/Ubuntu.
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