Re: Is life with 'udev' good?
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:
> >
> > 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?
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/cruzer.rules
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Cruzer Mini", KERNEL="sd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cruzer%n"
The above entry makes sure that anytime I connect my USB memory stick
the kernel device that it's assigned to is symlinked to /dev/cruzerX
where X is the partition of the devices partitions.
Then in my fstab I have something like the following:
/dev/cruzer1 /mnt/cruzer auto defaults,user,noauto,noatime 0 0
No matter how many USB or Firewire devices I connect my Cruzer memory
stick is always mountable. I suppose if I ever connected multiple
Cruzer sticks I would have a problem, but I don't forsee myself doing
that anytime soon.
--
Jamin W. Collins
Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with it unless
you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar
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