Listing devices - quick question

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 11:42 -0800, Patton Echols wrote:
> I'm writing up my notes for someone who asked about data recovery and 
> I'm having a serious brain fade.  It's the part about discovering the 
> device that you just plugged in.  I know I can use
> $ fdisk -l to list devices or
> $ blkid to do the same and more.  But there is something that lists the 
> last system events, you run this command, then plug the usb device, then 
> run it again and see what got added to the end of the list.  Anyone want 
> to throw out the name for an idiot?

Minor brain fade isn't proof of idiocy.

Try "dmesg | tail -n40"

Gets the last 40 lines.


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