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Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2:44 pm, Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On 2008-04-08, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>
> Good point. I have been able to mount that disk on that server many
> times, but I can't remember the details. At this point all I need is
> the device to use with 'mount'. I have looked in 'dmesg' and under /
> proc, and can't find anything.
>
> -Ramon
>
> ps: udev is up & running on my system - thanks for bringing it to my
> attention.
>
restart it