which drive is it?

[Yuandan Zhang]

try to use
dmesg to see what USB is connected to sda1 etc, then you know where this 
usb is mounted to


Scott wrote:

> V Krish wrote:
>
>> I have three external USB drives connected to an AMD
>> machine running FC3. These are mounted as follows:
>> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb1
>> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb2
>> /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/usb3
>> Is there some way to figure out which physical drive
>> is mounted on /mnt/usb2 so I can pull that one out
>> after a umount (short of disconnecting each in turn)?
>> Thank you,
>> Krish
>>  
>>
>     Check out the udev help files:  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/.
> Briefly, you can write a rule so that a particular drive is always
> mounted the same way either by partition name or drive name (there are 
> other options too, but I haven't needed them!)
>
> Scott
>