T wrote:
Hi
Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by
their labels?
I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out yet.
thanks
I know that partitions can have labels. For ext2/ext3 partitions you
can set/see partition labels using 'e2label' (man e2label for info).
Also 'mount -L <label>' I believe allows mounting by label (again, man
mount) and the command 'mount -l' lists mounted partitions with label
information.
I believe that a label may be specified in /etc/fstab also (instead of
the device) by using 'LABEL=<label>' in place of the device (eg.
'/deb/hda1'). Once more the man page for fstab explains it more clearly.
If you want to mount devices in specific places I really think that
placing an entry in /etc/fstab is probably the best way to do it. The
device does not have to be mounted at boot up, but if the entry is in
/etc/fstab, when the time comes to mount them it can simply be done by a
'mount <device>' or 'mount -L <label>'.
As far as udev is concerned, I believe what it does is to "populate"
/dev with devices. I also know that you can specify certain "rules" as
to what name the device is placed in /dev as, etc. That's something
that you'd have to look into to fully understand how to get udev to do
these things. I believe the following links should help:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/126
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=259
HTH
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque
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