On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was > > sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will > > not work. > > > Actually, isn't it a simple thing such that one can write udev rules > such that that disk will always be referred as TVstorage no matter if > it's sda/sdb/sdc/etc?? It can use for example, the DISK's or partitions > ID/Number etc. Well, simple for you maybe. Not so simple for me. ;-) However putting a label on the partition does seem to be working now. I don't know why it didn't mount a couple of times but it did on later reboots so for now I'm just going to chalk it up to electronic gremlins and hope it doesn't return. There is a similar new problem that may be related to this one that I'm going to ask for help in a thread later this morning. Thanks in advance for your help on that one. > > Also, if you're on Gnome and you not heard of Project Utopia/Gentopia, > perhaps it's time for you to visit it and read about it. I will look it up. Thanks. > > Ps : Is /dev/sdb2 a removable disk? if so, perhaps gnome-volume-manager > can help (along with gamin/inotify/hal/dbus) Yes, sdb is an external 1394 hard drive. Practically it's not going to be removed since it's being used for MythTV data storage. However when I add another 1394 drive it may be recognized as sdb or sdc so mounting my device name (/dev/sdX#) doesn't work. I also have to deal with the case where maybe the drive gets turned off and then power applied after the machine is up and booted. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
