All, I'm not sure when this changed, but in the past when I plugged in a USB flash drive, I could just watch a tail of the journal to see the connection and device details. I tried that again today and nothing appeared in the journal, though the device was seen and assigned /dev/sde (and /dev/sde1) which I got from cat /proc/partitions. I have also added the kernel parameter audit=0 per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Audit_framework to disable the audit messages in the journal. I don't recall the USB messages being audit messages before (they could have been, I just don't remember), but now nothing is shown. Is the lack of output in the journal on USB drive plug-in due to the audit=0 parameter, and if so, is there any way to restore the journal messages on USB plug-in without enabling audit? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.