Re: **Caution-External**: Re: USB hotplug woes
I thought about that, however the script that I am using calls to mount
/dev/sdb1 to /dev/usbkey
On 7/21/06 1:59 PM, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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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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