~$ lsusb .... Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0424:2602 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub Bus 001 Device 010: ID 13fe:3100 Kingston Technology Company Inc. 2 GB USB stick ... ~$mount ... /dev/sde1 on /media/0D5D-ABCE type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush) ~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 340 2011-05-25 19:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2011-05-25 12:42 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-05-25 19:42 pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2.1.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-05-25 19:42 pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2.1.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-05-25 19:45 pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-05-25 19:45 pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sde1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-05-25 19:42 pci-0000:00:08.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda -- SO in this case, /dev/sde1 is the partition on my 2GB kingston key, mounted at /media/0D5D-ABCE