How can Fedora get the serial number of a U-Disk

youhaodeyi · #1 2nd January 2008, 12:32 AM

Is there any command to get the serial number from a U-Disk?

Thanks.

stevea · #2 2nd January 2008, 03:02 AM

"lsusb -v | less" will print some lines like ...
iManufacturer 1 Corsair
iProduct 2 Flash Voyager
iSerial 3 A141700000000006

youhaodeyi · #3 2nd February 2008, 05:11 AM

It seems that only root has the permission on running this command. How can I let anyone read the information of USB disk?

stevea · #4 3rd February 2008, 04:54 AM

It's not a permissions issue. For some very silly reasons the /sbin and /usr/sbin directory are not on the default user path. A simple solution is (as root) just type "ln -s /sbin/lsusb /bin/lsusb"

youhaodeyi · #5 3rd February 2008, 07:42 AM

It is not the path issuse. See below:

$ lsusb
cannot open /proc/bus/usb/001/001, Permission denied (13)
I run the command by other users and got the permission denied error.