$ sudo dmesg | grep -i udev ...... [ 355.780264] udevd[659]: Validate module index [ 355.780607] udevd[659]: seq 4158 queued, 'add' 'usb' [ 355.781220] udevd[659]: seq 4158 forked new worker [2436] [ 355.782401] udevd[2436]: seq 4158 running [ 355.782729] udevd[2436]: no db file to read /run/udev/data/c189:257: No such file or directory [ 355.782856] udevd[2436]: IMPORT builtin 'usb_id' /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libgphoto2.rules:9 [ 355.783937] udevd[659]: seq 4159 queued, 'add' 'usb' [ 355.784125] udevd[659]: seq 4160 queued, 'bind' 'usb' [ 355.784754] udevd[2436]: IMPORT builtin skip 'usb_id' /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:13 [ 355.784765] udevd[2436]: IMPORT builtin 'hwdb' /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:13 [ 365.648261] udevd[659]: Validate module index [ 365.648410] udevd[659]: seq 4178 queued, 'remove' 'bsg' [ 365.648901] udevd[659]: seq 4178 forked new worker [2454] [ 365.649301] udevd[659]: seq 4179 queued, 'remove' 'scsi_device' [ 365.649724] udevd[659]: seq 4179 forked new worker [2455] [ 365.649941] udevd[659]: seq 4180 queued, 'remove' 'scsi_disk' [ 365.649951] udevd[2454]: seq 4178 running [ 365.650385] udevd[659]: seq 4180 forked new worker [2456] [ 365.651134] udevd[2455]: seq 4179 running [ 365.651236] udevd[2455]: no db file to read /run/udev/data/+scsi_device:5:0:0:0: No such file or directory $ udevadm monitor monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing KERNEL - the kernel uevent KERNEL[355.829048] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2 (usb) KERNEL[355.832118] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[355.832388] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2 (usb) KERNEL[355.919912] add /module/usb_storage (module) KERNEL[355.921133] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5 (scsi) KERNEL[355.921180] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/scsi_host/host5 (scsi_host) KERNEL[355.922414] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[355.922461] add /bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage (drivers) KERNEL[355.933664] add /module/uas (module) KERNEL[355.933968] add /bus/usb/drivers/uas (drivers) KERNEL[357.206092] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[357.206156] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[357.206183] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/scsi_device/5:0:0:0 (scsi_device) KERNEL[357.206933] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/scsi_disk/5:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[357.207906] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/bsg/5:0:0:0 (bsg) KERNEL[357.215925] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) KERNEL[357.220995] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc (block) KERNEL[357.221049] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1 (block) KERNEL[357.221078] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc2 (block) KERNEL[357.223736] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[365.696363] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/bsg/5:0:0:0 (bsg) KERNEL[365.696523] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/scsi_device/5:0:0:0 (scsi_device) KERNEL[365.696989] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/scsi_disk/5:0:0:0 (scsi_disk) KERNEL[365.703826] change /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc (block) KERNEL[365.704161] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc2 (block) KERNEL[365.704284] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1 (block) KERNEL[365.704740] remove /devices/virtual/bdi/8:32 (bdi) KERNEL[365.704873] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sdc (block) KERNEL[365.712037] unbind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[365.712094] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[365.728351] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/target5:0:0 (scsi) KERNEL[365.728419] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5/scsi_host/host5 (scsi_host) KERNEL[365.728446] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host5 (scsi) KERNEL[365.737169] unbind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[365.737264] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[365.737881] unbind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2 (usb) KERNEL[365.737940] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2 (usb) $ lsblk | grep sdc sdc 8:32 1 14.5G 0 disk |-sdc1 8:33 1 4G 0 part `-sdc2 8:34 1 10.5G 0 part