A cute CLI trick for emergencies

[Robert Nichols]

On 12/07/2011 12:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to
> mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't
> figure out how to work out just which device name to use.  A question on
> fedoraforum had an answer in just a few hours, and I'm almost ashamed to
> admit that I didn't think of it myself.  As root,
>
> fdisk -l
>
> will tell you exactly what you need.  D'oh!

An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin
up every sleeping drive on your system.  Looking at the output from dmesg
won't do that.

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