Answering my own message for posterity's sake: This line will output "E: ID_BUS=usb" for any block device connected to a USB bus:

udevadm info --query=all --name=$file 2>/dev/null | grep -i BUS=usb;

The basic idea is to 1) use udevadm to get all info on device $file (where $file is a string like "sde") a) send all errors to /dev/null. 2) grep the output of udevadm for the string "BUS=usb" which appears on USB devices.

Note that you must have $file defined with a device name which I got by listing the contents of /sys/block.

Good luck! Also, if anybody has a better solution, please reply. The above appeared to be "good enough" to finish porting my admin script.

-Ben

On 09/21/2012 11:36 AM, Lists wrote:

I'm updating a script to work with EL6 (previously worked on EL5) and am stumped, google fu is failing me. Part of the script is to detect USB drives and mount them. Previously, It worked something like

isUsbDevice() { if [ -f /sys/block/$1/usb ] ; then // do stuff fi; }

but I don't find the "usb" file/directory anywhere to be found any more on el6. I've tried the output of lsusb and lsusb -v but in no case have I been able to find anything there matching anything in /sys/block that matching anything in lsusb's output.

Given an available drive (EG: /dev/sdk) how can I reliably tell it's interface type? (USB/SATA/PATA/SCSI ?)

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