see newly attached devices

[JD Austin]

Try lsusb

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2014-08-05 12:30, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> something on th hard drive I need though. I have an IDE to USB
>> adapter. I connect everything together and open my file manager but the
>>
>> new device isn't listed in the device menu. Could someone help me get
>> into the device?
>>
>
> If you plug a USB device in and it's recognized, it will show up in the
> output from dmesg about 1 second after you plug it in as something like
>
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdc: sdc1
>
> "dmesg | tail -n 40 | grep sd" should give you something like that right
> after you've plugged it in.  In the example above, the first partition of
> the disk is visible at /dev/sdc1 , so I would then do "mount /dev/sdc1
> /mnt/somewhere" to look at the files on it.
>
> Or you can look at "ls -lt /dev/disk/by-id/" and pick out the most
> recently added partition.
>
> If the filesystem or drive is damaged badly enough, then this might not
> work.
>
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