I retrieve the first device information from the block subsystem. For example that a USB stick was assigned to /dev/sdb. This is all the infos I can retrieve via the block subsystem:
[(u'DEVLINKS', u'/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_63F2B6EC-0:0 /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 /dev/disk/by-uu
id/2013-12-12-00-56-55-00'),
(u'DEVNAME', u'/dev/sdb'),
(u'DEVPATH', u'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/host74/target74:0:0/74:0:0:0/block/sdb'),
(u'DEVTYPE', u'disk'), (u'ID_BUS', u'usb'),
(u'ID_FS_APPLICATION_ID', u'GENISOIMAGE\\x20ISO\\x209660\\x2fHFS\\x20FILESYSTEM\\x20CREATOR\\x20\\x28C\\x29\\x201993\\x20E.YOUNGDALE\\x20\\x28C\\x29\\x201997-2006\\x20J.PEARSON\\x2fJ.SCHILLING\\x20\\x28C\\x29\\x202006-2007\\x20CDRKIT\\x20TEAM'),
(u'ID_FS_BOOT_SYSTEM_ID', u'EL\\x20TORITO\\x20SPECIFICATION'),
(u'ID_FS_LABEL', u'Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1'),
(u'ID_FS_LABEL_ENC', u'Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1'),
(u'ID_FS_SYSTEM_ID', u'LINUX'),
(u'ID_FS_TYPE', u'iso9660'),
(u'ID_FS_USAGE', u'filesystem'),
(u'ID_FS_UUID', u'2013-12-12-00-56-55-00'),
(u'ID_FS_UUID_ENC', u'2013-12-12-00-56-55-00'),
(u'ID_FS_VERSION', u'Joliet Extension'),
(u'ID_INSTANCE', u'0:0'),
(u'ID_MODEL', u'Flash_Disk'),
(u'ID_MODEL_ENC', u'Flash\\x20Disk\\x20\\x20\\x20\\x20\\x20\\x20'),
(u'ID_MODEL_ID', u'6387'),
(u'ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE', u'dos'),
(u'ID_PART_TABLE_UUID', u'5513338d'),
(u'ID_PATH', u'pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0'),
(u'ID_PATH_TAG', u'pci-0000_00_1d_0-usb-0_1_2_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0'),
(u'ID_REVISION', u'8.07'),
(u'ID_SERIAL', u'Generic_Flash_Disk_63F2B6EC-0:0'),
(u'ID_SERIAL_SHORT', u'63F2B6EC'),
(u'ID_TYPE', u'disk'),
(u'ID_USB_DRIVER', u'usb-storage'),
(u'ID_USB_INTERFACES', u':080650:'),
(u'ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM', u'00'),
(u'ID_VENDOR', u'Generic'),
(u'ID_VENDOR_ENC', u'Generic\\x20'),
(u'ID_VENDOR_ID', u'058f'),
(u'MAJOR', u'8'),
(u'MINOR', u'16'),
(u'MPATH_SBIN_PATH', u'/sbin'),
(u'SUBSYSTEM', u'block'),
(u'TAGS', u':systemd:'),
(u'UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY', u'0'),
(u'USEC_INITIALIZED', u'7197321174')]
I want to get some detailed information from the usb subsystem. But how can I find my USB device with the information I retrieved from the block subsystem?
PyUSB would be a good address for detailed USB information indeed. But I use pyudev to monitor the insertion of USB removable devices. So I tried to do all I need with one library.. Here is a code that works but is ugly (as you can see I can extract all information I want using pyudev except the usb size/capacity):
import glib
from pyudev import Context, Monitor
import pyudev
import subprocess
def get_block_infos(dev_name):
dev = pyudev.Device.from_device_file(context, dev_name)
try:
objProc = subprocess.Popen('lsblk --nodeps %s | grep -v SIZE | awk \'{ print $4 }\'' % dev.get('DEVNAME'), shell=True, bufsize=0, executable="/bin/bash", stdin=None, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
except OSError, e:
print(e)
# stdOut.communicate() --> dimension [0]: stdout, dimenstion [1]: stderr
stdOut = objProc.communicate()
print('<BLOCK INFORMATION>')
print('Device name: %s' % dev.get('DEVNAME'))
print('Device type: %s' % dev.get('DEVTYPE'))
print('Bus system: %s' % dev.get('ID_BUS'))
print('Partition label: %s' % dev.get('ID_FS_LABEL'))
print('FS: %s' % dev.get('ID_FS_SYSTEM_ID'))
print('FS type: %s' % dev.get('ID_FS_TYPE'))
print('Device usage: %s' % dev.get('ID_FS_USAGE'))
print('Device model: %s' % dev.get('ID_MODEL'))
print('Partition type: %s' % dev.get('ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE'))
print('USB driver: %s' % dev.get('ID_USB_DRIVER'))
print('Path id: %s' % dev.get('ID_PATH'))
print('Capacity: %s' % stdOut[0].strip())
print('</BLOCK INFORMATION>')
def get_usb_infos(dev_path):
print('<USB INFORMATION>')
usb_removable_device = None
# deprecated and removed from dbus
# print(pyudev.Device.from_path(context, id_path))
# because I found no other documented way, I iterate
# over all devices and match my pci path..
for device in context.list_devices(subsystem='usb'):
usb_dev_path = device.get('DEVPATH')
if dev_path.startswith(usb_dev_path):
# this matches the usb hub,
# the usb controller and
# in third place the usb stick
# so lets watch out for the
# longest/most precise match
try:
if len(usb_dev_path) > len(usb_removable_device.get('DEVPATH')):
usb_removable_device = device
except AttributeError:
# ignore because in first loop
# usb_removable_device is None and
# there is no usb_removable_device.get() attrib
usb_removable_device = device
# get more information with usb_removable_device.items()
print('Vendor: %s' % usb_removable_device.get('ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE'))
print('</USB INFORMATION>')
try:
from pyudev.glib import MonitorObserver
def device_event(observer, device):
get_block_infos(device.get('DEVNAME'))
get_usb_infos(device.get('DEVPATH'))
except:
from pyudev.glib import GUDevMonitorObserver as MonitorObserver
def device_event(observer, action, device):
get_block_infos(device.get('DEVNAME'))
get_usb_infos(device.get('DEVPATH'))
context = Context()
monitor = Monitor.from_netlink(context)
monitor.filter_by(subsystem='block')
observer = MonitorObserver(monitor)
observer.connect('device-event', device_event)
monitor.start()
glib.MainLoop().run()
An example output of this script would be:
<BLOCK INFORMATION>
Device name: /dev/sdb
Device type: disk
Bus system: usb
Partition label: CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD
FS: LINUX
FS type: iso9660
Device usage: filesystem
Device model: Patriot_Memory
Partition type: dos
USB driver: usb-storage
Path id: pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
Capacity: 14.5G
</BLOCK INFORMATION>
<USB INFORMATION>
Vendor: Kingston Technology Company Inc.
</USB INFORMATION>
<BLOCK INFORMATION>
Device name: /dev/sdb1
Device type: partition
Bus system: usb
Partition label: CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD
FS: LINUX
FS type: ext4
Device usage: filesystem
Device model: Patriot_Memory
Partition type: dos
USB driver: usb-storage
Path id: pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:1.2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
Capacity: 14.4G
</BLOCK INFORMATION>
<USB INFORMATION>
Vendor: Kingston Technology Company Inc.
</USB INFORMATION>