A cute CLI trick for emergencies

Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 14:38:07 UTC 2011


On 7 December 2011 09:43, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/12/11 06:19, 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!
>
> blkid
>
> --

I like bashmount to do the unmounting:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashmount/

Chris


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