On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:10, Darryl Clarke wrote:
>
> I have a lot of USB drives that I deal with and I'm getting quite
> annoyed that whenever I switch drives the /dev/sdX association changes
> too. I started on /dev/sda and now I'm currently on /dev/sdp and I
> have to edit my fstab every time I switch drives around.
Are you running a 2.6 kernel? If so, use udev with hotplug. With udev
you can create naming rules which will provide you with stable names for
use in /etc/fstab.
udev works off of information exporting by the kernel drivers to the
sysfs filesystem (usually mounted on /sys).
For example, I use the following udev rule (all one line) to create
a symlink called "ipod" in the /dev/ directory to the data partition on
my iPod when it's plugged in:
BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="iPod", KERNEL="sd?3", NAME="%k",
SYMLINK="ipod"
Hope that helps,
--
steven
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