Raymond Lewis Rebbeck schrieb: > On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will >> be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... >> >> I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? >> Some device name, that >> a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to /dev/usb) and >> b) uses a numering not depending on how many harddisk there are in the >> system >> >> So for example /dev/usb/uda could be a symlink to /dev/sdb, >> /dev/usb/uda1 a symlink to /dev/sdb1 etc. >> (In this case, sda would be a normal harddisk, which is the reason why >> the usb-device is sdb) >> >> >> So i don't know any other distribution doing it like that. So what do >> you think? >> - is it possible? >> - is it a good idea? >> - is it such a good idea, so that gentoo becomes the first distribution >> doing it? >> - is it a bad idea to differ from all the other distros out there? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Sven > > Take a look at the contents of /dev/disk/ or if you don't like that, read up > on writing your own udev rules and you can give devices whatever device node > you want.
/dev/disk is tooo fine grained. Imagine, i would be an administrator of lots of Linux-PCs in an unversity. What do i know about the label, uuid, path or id of the usb-stick that the user plugs into an arbitrary USB-plug of the computer? Well, not enough to use /dev/disk actually: i don't know the label i don't know the exact path i don't know the id and i guess i also don't know the uuid. So if i wanted to create a mountpoint for the first three usb mass storage devices (asuming, they only have one partition, as usual), i wouldn't be abled to do it. I will write my own udev-rules then - that's alright for me. Thanks for the hints/suggestions to all who answered! Greetings, Sven
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