Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> an emergency shell. This happens about 50% of the times. Then I use the
> emergency prompt to check if /dev/exthd1 actually exists, and, again,
> 50% of the times it doesn't; the /dev/sd?1 file is always there,
> though. When /dev/exthd1 doesn't exist, a "udevadm trigger" will bring
> it up.

If /dev/sd?1 is there but the exthd symlink isn't, it probably indicates
that the udevd that was runing when the drive was recognized did not
apply your special rule.

Could it be that you're using an initrd that has not been rebuilt since
you added your udev rule?


        Stefan