[Leaplist] [Fwd: A newbie question]

[Fred Moore]

Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> 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
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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.
>
dmesg | grep usb

of course plug it in first.. Fred



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