[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Bug#334795: Flash-Memory-HOWTO: say how to find correct /dev/sd?1

wieseltux23 gspurki at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 15:17:39 UTC 2005


Dan Jacobson wrote:

>Package: doc-linux-html
>X-Debbugs-CC: nikos at friedrichs.up.ac.za
>Version: 2005.09-1
>Severity: minor
>File: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/verifications.html
>
>There is a leap in logic on verifications.html where the author
>magically assumes the device is /dev/sda1.
>
>He doesn't say how to make sure which /dev/sd?1 it really is, in case
>the user cannot unplug all his other USB things before reading
>verifications.html.
>
>Other parts of the document seem to brush nearer to the problem but not all the way.
>
>Hmmm,
>perl -nwle 's/.*Attached.* (.*) at .*/$1/&& print' /var/log/syslog
>seems to find some.
>
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