Comments on: Find USB flash drive device in Linux

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:06:17 +0000

worked for me.. nice tutorial

By: janardhan

janardhan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:57:43 +0000

Aug 18 13:59:23 localhost kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Aug 18 13:59:25 localhost gconfd (root-17454): Failed to flush client add to saved state file: No space left on device
Aug 18 13:59:25 localhost gconfd (root-17454): Failed to log addition of listener gnome-mount (Failed: Failed to log addition of listener to gconfd logfile; won\\\’t be able to re-add the listener if gconfd exits or shuts down (No space left on device));will not be able to restore this listener on gconfd restart, resulting in unreliable noti

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:00:42 +0000

Very useful information and guide. Thanks so much for this nice guide.
I looked to many websites and blogs to find the guide with such a details but cant find it expect here. You have done a great job.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:23:39 +0000

sudo fdisk -l
would give the list of all the devices in your computer. No need to look for it in log.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:12:26 +0000

To be precise /dev/sda is the device and /dev/sda1 is a partition =)

By: Palmetto

Palmetto — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:25:16 +0000

Thanks. This was very helpful in tracking down the device names for two USB flash media readers.

By: jake

jake — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:11:57 +0000

Hi,

I was trying to mount a USB in linux kernel of Chromium OS using your directions. I am able to find a usb but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error: “unknown filesystem type ‘ntfs’ “. which probably means that this flavor of linux doesnt recognize ntfs? do you know of a way to fix that?

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:18 +0000

useful article. i have a fileserver with no desktop and this helped me identify a couple of dead usb connections. eventually found a live one at the rear of the server. much quicker than moving big files across the network. thanks

By: Hxx

Hxx — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:01:31 +0000

I use the command
fdisk -l (small L)
Shows all storage devices.

By: Toly

Toly — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:27:56 +0000

@David,

Can you inject your usb drive, run “dmesg”, and post 10-20 lines where it identifies your drive? This might help to resolve your problem.

Thank you,
– Toly