[Leaplist] [Fwd: A newbie question]

[Bruce Metcalf]

Hi gang,

This time my question comes from a penpal (keyboardpal?) in Thailand who
can't find a local support group that speaks English. Perhaps you'd be
willing to offer an answer I could pass along to him:

Thanks,
Bruce

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Meanwhile, the death of my monitor reminded me to back up frequently.
I had been remiss. So I enlisted my venerable Iomega Zip100 USB disc
drive, and found that it is not at all easy to operate in Lenny. ... now
the media are unavailable, so it's a losing cause.

The new plan calls for a CD backup of recent files in /home/user on a
weekly basis. I need to back up to an external drive. I have selected a 
flash gizmo, a thumb drive or whatever you call it, that plugs into a 
USB socket.

To manage it, I plan to use usbmount, and I got info on configuring it
from the Debian User Forum. I plan to have a line in /etc/fstab as
follows:

/dev/sdc1 /media/usb0 vfat defaults,noexec,user,sync 0 0

and configure /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf accordingly. Also I plan to
modify /media to fit.

Here's my stoopid question: how do I determine whether the flash drive
is in usb0 or usb1?

I have a USB hookup to my printer, and it appears to be on USB 1. ... My 
mouse and keyboard are not USB. What's the easy way to see where the 
flash drive is?

I figured dmesg would show it, but Lenny produces a very different
dmesg than did Etch, and all I could get from that is that the flash
drive, which is recognized and identified, is on USB 5-4. Huh?

There has to be a simple solution to this newbie quandry. TIA.

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