Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply. Yes, I sometimes run into trouble by having too > many different USB drives to mount. I got the impression that > configuring udev was the answer, but I was intimidated by the coding > necessary to do it.
disk/by-id is now provided by udev config (may be by debian). So you should not have any udev coding to do. >> On my side, to be sure that a usb-device is always mounted on the same >> point, I use an entry from /dev/disk/by-id/ instead of relying on >> /dev/sdd1. > > Interesting. I see the logic by looking at /dev/disk/by-id, and it > looks simple. But I am a bit nervous about experimenting. Can you > refer me to a HOWTO, or do I have to play around to see if I can get > it to work? It seems this use of by-id is actually part of udev. It's quite simple: - check the content of /dev/disk/by-id - plug your thumb-drive - check the new entries in /dev/disk/by-id - add this kind of line to your fstab: /dev/disk/by-id/<new_entry> <usb_mount_point> auto rw,noatime,user 0 0 HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
