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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