[yocto] How do I tell when a USB disk is ready?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-10-24 18:10, Chris Tapp wrote:
> I've got a minimal root file system that will be used to install a poky image from a USB stick.
>
> The init script this uses mounts sda1 (from where it's just booted), but sda1 isn't ready when it tries to do this - I can see the bus enumeration messages on the console after the
> mount fails.
>
> How can my script test to see when the device is ready?

You could try looking for /dev/sda1 in /proc/partitions like in
attached script.

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