Re: Hotplugging more USB devices

[Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com>]

Ralph Kutschera wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
>   I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my
> PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card
> slots or disk would be mapped to the same scsi devices always. However,
> depending upon when i turn on/off the external hard disk or
> inserting/ejecting a card to the reader, the devices are sometimes
> /dev/sda, /dev/sde, whatever.
> 
>   My question now: How can I setup hotplugging so, that disk partition 1
> mounts to /mnt/ext1, the other partition to /mnt/ext2. Or my slot for
> SD-Cards mounts to /mnt/cards/sd. Whatever. You know.

You'll need to learn about how to do this with udev rules. Doing it with
udev rules will take a little creativity (becasue what have to do will
depend on your hardware configuration), but not much more than is normal
when working with udev.

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

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