[Novalug] External USB Drive Questions

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Mon Aug 13 17:24:01 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:05:37PM -0400, Richard Ertel wrote:
> if you haven't already, i suggest looking into 'udisks'.  judging by my
> spare use of it, it seems to be able to go a bit deeper than mount and
> unmount and such.
> 
> i use it to unmount and detach a usb hdd, but it can do more.
> 
> -rick

Thanks for mentioning udisks; yet another useful command I knew not.

jl
> 
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
> 
> > you can get uuid of all the drives with
> >
> >
> > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
> >
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