On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6
> > > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to
> > > figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in.
> > >
> > > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better or worse?
> >
> > Don't know about a "general concensus" but I'm quite happy with udev's
> > operation and having consistent device names for my USB and Firewire
> > devices.
>
> What kind of names? Can you give some examples? When I insert
> a pen drive, for example, /var/log/syslog says that it is /dev/sdc1
> instead of something devfs-like /dev/usb/port01/drive01/part01.
>
> --
in udev.rules I have:
BUS="usb" , KERNEL="sd?1",SYSFS_serial="07381C501259, NAME="usbkey"
I then can:
mount /dev/usbkey /mnt/usbkey
or some other magic for automounting.
-Kev
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