Find which drive corresponds to which USB mass storage device in Linux

Question

I have several USB mass storage flash drives connected to a Ubuntu Linux computer (Ubuntu 10.04.1, kernel 2.6.32-25-386), and I need to tell them apart programatically (from

Answer 1

Here is how I do it.

lsusb -v shows all the devices disks get an iserial number take note of them

 ls -l /dev/disk | grep [iserial] 

Everything in /dev/disk is a symlink so follow the symlink to see the device.