Re: unique identifiers for cdrom drives
On Sat, 14 May 2011 09:58:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> My Squeeze installs on machines that have two cdrom drives seem to boot
> sometimes with the upper drive as /media/cdrom0 and lower drive as
> /media/cdrom2, and other times with the identities reversed. I'm sure
> there must be a way to fix on one assignment and keep with it, but how?
>
> There is nothing about cdrom drives in /etc/fstab. I suppose that
> something added there will fix the problem, but what?
I'm sure you already know the answer... udev? :-)
> I've googled and see reference to vol_id, but I don't have vol_id, and
> can't find it, or even a man page.
There is a file located at "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules" that
can be manually edited to make static names for the optical devices (or
so it seems), maybe you can do something there.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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