Re: USB disk, SCSI , and /etc/fstab

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks for your reply.



Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:48:09PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
> > Mattia Dongili wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:03:17PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello List,
> > > >
> > > > is there a way to configure my laptop
> > > > to assign alway the same SCSI dev to my
> > > > USB disk whatever the order they are pluged ?
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know but I think not.
> > > You could take advantage of the callback script of hotpulg to add and
> > > remove an fstab entry.
> > >
> > > hth, bye
> >
> > Thanks for your reply:
> > I am not (yet) very familiar with hotplug stuff:
> > please can give a name to the "callback" script.
>
>
> I think you could tweak with /etc/hotpulg/usb.agent, it's a bash script.
> See the beginning of the file for ... uh!

fellowing the mechanism in the script,
I wrote a `/etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage' script to solve my issue.

> I found a very usefull tool while looking at usb.agent: updfstab 
> It's in the kudzu package, install it, read the man page and tweak
> usb.agent to call it in the add) case as it's already done in
> the remove) case
>
> (backup your fstab file before experimenting :)
>
> hth
Thanks