[CentOS] Re: Device name for a USB disk

Sat Apr 21 15:16:26 UTC 2007
Kay Diederichs <kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de>

Todd Cary schrieb:
> I see a sda and a sda1.  Should I use the sda1?
> 
> Todd
> 
> joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>> What is the device name for a USB drive?  I want to rsync some files 
>>> to it and I have completely forgotten the device name!
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /dev/???????/
>>
>> Because these are managed as SCSI drives, the names are 
>> /dev/sda[1...], /dev/sdb[1...],...
>>>
>>> Many thanks....
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>
>>
> 

Todd,

before you use it, you'll have to mount it - /dev/sda is the disk, 
/dev/sda1 is its first partition. Probably you'll have to
mount /media/usbdisk
as a regular user
or
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
(or similar) as root.

HTH,

Kay