There are multiple ways to find the USB drives plugged into your Linux Computer and/or Raspberry or similar. Two easy ways are by leveraging on one of the two commands described in this How To Find An USB Device In Linux.
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How To Find An USB Device In Linux
In this How To Find An USB Device In Linux you will be leveraging on two simple but powerful commands. One is “usb-devices” and the other one is “lsusb”. Both commands are very useful to you to help you identifying USB devices plugged into your Linux computer, Raspberry or similar. Lets start:
- Start your favourite terminal program to access the command line directly
- Type the below command “usb-devices”
usb-devices
- This comment will display you the usb devices as shown in the below picture
Linux command usb-devices
Alternatively, you can leverage on the command “lusb”. To do so, you take exactly the same approach as with the usb-devices command, but of course you enter “lusb” instead of “usb-devices”. Lets try it:
- Start your favourite terminal program to access the command line directly
- Type the below command “lusb”
lusb
- This comment will display you the usb devices as shown in the below picture
Output of the lusb command in Linux
Additional information
There are a lot of additional information made available for you in the internet. I really prefer to read man pages as the man pages give a great view on what options are possible with these commands. I think its a good idea to read them and I recommend to you to do so.
- Manpage lusb
- Manpage usb-devices
