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What I specifically need is a log that shows the exact time and date a USB device was plugged in or removed.
Example :
14:40 USB DEVICE X WAS MOUNTED
14:43 USB DEVICE X WAS REMOVED
02:12 USB DEVICE Y WAS MOUNTED
Is this possible in Xubuntu?
Sugoi88
Posted 2013-09-14T21:45:57.113
Reputation: 21
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You will find information on connected and disconnected USB devices in /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/syslog (at least on a Debian-based system like (X)Ubuntu). syslog will be more helpful for you, since it contains the actual date and time, not just the seconds since the system was started.
If you're only interested in recent activity, you will probably get away with searching the most recent logfile:
grep ' usb ' /var/log/syslog
If that doesn't suffice, you will have to unzip /var/log/syslog.*.gz (not to /var/log, though!) and search them as well.
n.st
Posted 2013-09-14T21:45:57.113
Reputation: 1 538