Re: **Caution-External**: Re: USB hotplug woes
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Great. But, I think you should change the sdb1 to sd?1, since the
thumb drive might not be sdb on each machine, or each time you plug
it in.
Vandoorn, Yvo wrote:
> I'm a retard... Changed it to sdb1 and whabam... It works as expected. Only
> problem now is that the last part of the script that tells it to unmount
> isn't working but that is fixable. So it seems 2.6 kernel with udev is the
> solution.
>
>
> On 7/21/06 11:54 AM, "Vandoorn, Yvo" <yvo_vandoorn@mcgraw-hill.com> wrote:
>
>> Well I have since taken the complete plunge to 2.6. I was able to boot
>> debian by changing the fstab & grub configuration.
>>
>> Ok so now I have researched on how to write udev.rules (using
>> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html as reference).
>>
>> In the guide at the bottom it recommends doing:
>>
>> KERNEL=="sdb", RUN+="/usr/bin/my_program"
>>
>> However what I am seeing in my /var/log/syslog (I modified
>> /etc/udev/udev.conf to output debug logging) is that it attempts to run the
>> script before it has actually done any of the volume discovery. My scripts
>> first command is to mount /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/usbkey. This doesn't work of
>> course since /dev/sdb1 wont be declared after the script is done.
>>
>> Any ideas on what I can do from here?
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