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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:16:54 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?
Message-ID:  <200903112016.54859.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20090311182051.GD67007@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20138265.681236784246466.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <200903111809.25108.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20090311182051.GD67007@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Roland Smith wrote:

> If you give the msdosfs filesystem a unique label (with e.g. mlabel
> from emulators/mtools), you'll get a unique device in /dev/msdosfs/.

Yes, but sometimes I'll be transferring data to or from someone else's 
USB stick so I can't make any assumptions about how the filesystem has 
been labeled.

-- 
Mike Clarke



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