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From: Bill Marcum
Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: How to detect that a USB disk has been plugged?
From: Bill Marcum
Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: How to detect that a USB disk has been plugged?
On 2008-04-08, Ramon F Herrera
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> My server is in a remote site and I have ssh access only. I had a
> colleague plug an USB disk into the server and would like to mount it.
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> I was hoping that the insertion of the disk would generate some log
> message but that doesn't seem to be the case. I only looked in /var/
> log/messages, btw.
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> My second approach was to reboot the server and take a look at the
> boot log in order to identify the device and mount the disk.
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> Is it possible to identify the device without rebooting? Maybe I
> should look under the /proc filesystem?
>
Perhaps your server installation does not include udevd.
