[ale] mounting an SD card

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu June 29 2006 8:10 am, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Each "new" device on the USB bus gets its own address number. ?My
> one girlfriend has a phone that you can plug into the USB port on
> the computer, and it takes 4 USB addresses, 1 is for a USB modem,
> and I am not sure (yet) what the others are for, since I haven't
> looked hard into it yet.
wow, thanks for the in-depth translation, you make it sound so easy!

>
> That's why I recommended that you start with a tail -f on the kernel
> log; you can actually see (in close-ish to real time) what is
> happening as it happens, and see if the camera is just taking one
> address on the USB bus or more. ?Each address has to be "claimed" by
> a driver that handles a class of devices, such as Mass Storage.
no /var/log/ker* anything, here are the logs that are being written 
today. HOW do I limit the messages file, or is that possible???

/var/log/ ( not all, just those written to today)
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root            29649 2006-06-29 06:40 Xorg.1.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root          228781 2006-06-29 07:58 ntp
-rw-r-----   1 root   root        5677062 2006-06-29 08:35 mail.info
-rw-r-----   1 root   root        5677062 2006-06-29 08:35 mail
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root            32834 2006-06-29 08:36 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root        1090629 2006-06-29 08:36 kdm.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root      19205314 2006-06-29 08:43 warn
-rw-r-----   1 root   root    143140642 2006-06-29 08:43 messages

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Paul Cartwright
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