<p>
The old way:
</p>

<pre><code>
$ ls /dev/sd*
</code></pre>

<p>
Another old way:
</p>

<pre><code>
$ fdisk --list
</code></pre>

<p>
An old way to see what you just plugged in:
</p>

<pre><code>
$ sudo dmesg | tail
</code></pre>

<p>
Some new tricks:
</p>
<pre><code>
$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0   2.7T  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  23.3G  0 part 
└─sda2   8:2    0   2.7T  0 part 
sdb      8:16   0   3.9G  0 disk 
sdc      8:32   0 111.8G  0 disk 
├─sdc1   8:33   0   100M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sdc2   8:34   0 111.7G  0 part /
sdd      8:48   0   1.8T  0 disk 
├─sdd1   8:49   0   120G  0 part /var
├─sdd2   8:50   0   120G  0 part /tmp
├─sdd3   8:51   0    60G  0 part /opt
└─sdd4   8:52   0   1.5T  0 part /home
sde      8:64   0 298.1G  0 disk 
├─sde1   8:65   0   500M  0 part 
├─sde2   8:66   0 296.8G  0 part 
└─sde3   8:67   0   826M  0 part 
sdf      8:80   0 931.5G  0 disk 
└─sdf1   8:81   0 931.5G  0 part 
sdg      8:96   1   7.5G  0 disk 
└─sdg1   8:97   1   7.5G  0 part 
</code></pre>

<p>
User-friendly udisks:
</p>

<pre><code>
$ udisks --monitor /dev
Ctrl-c
$ udisk --enumerate | sort
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda1
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda2
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc
/org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc1
[...]
$ udisks --mount /dev/sdc1
Mounted /dev/sdc1 on /media/mythumbdrive
$ udisks --unmount /dev/sdc1
</code></pre>
