Re: fstab entries for two different pendrives?
On Saturday 26 August 2006 17:09, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
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> Thanks to Florian and Alan.
> I forgot to say that my kernel is the 2.4, so udev is not for me - is it?
Why not upgrade?
> Then I'll turn on Florian's suggestion, unless there's some other remedy
> that avoid installing special packages like pmount.
> fstab alone should be sufficient to mount any device.
> I'd like to understand *why* it can't manage two sd* devices together,
> or what's the proper way to make it do.
The problem is (and one of the reasons udev was invented) is that either you
dynamically allocate device ids as they are hotplugged, or you have to
pre-allocate a device for every possible device (not really realistic).
Once you have dynamic allocation of devices, the order of plugging them in
matters, and that prevents you knowing which is going to be sda and which is
going to be sdb.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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