On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Edward Kamau wrote: > Hi > > I have a usb sd card reader a usb cruzer mini jump drive and a usb cf > card reader. I have created mount points for them as /cfcard /sdrive > and /jdrive. AT the time I set them up this corresponded > to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1. So /etc/fstab looks like this: > > <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> > <pass> > /dev/sdb1 /cfcard auto defaults,user,umask=000 0 0 > /dev/sdc1 /sdcard auto defaults,user,umask=000 0 > 0 > /dev/sdd1 /jdrive auto defaults,user,umask=000 0 0 > > My problem is that when I plugin say the jumpdrive it getsassigned > arbitrarily (or so it seems) to either sdb1 sdc1 or sdd1. I would like > to somehow make sure that each physical device always gets the same > device name. SO the sdcard is always /dev/sdc1 and the cf card is > always /dev/sdb1. Regardless of the order in which I plug them in. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > emk If you Google search for something like: udev rules usb drive, you will find lots of info on how to configure udev to assign the same device node to a piece of hardware. Thus, you could have /dev/cfcard, /dev/sdcard and /dev/jdrive, which can then be mounted on your desired mount point. Incidentally, why put the mount points under / and not under /mnt or /media? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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