On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 09:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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. ;-)
Well. It's simple to talk right :-) (which is what I'm doing) > > > > 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. I guess here would be where writing udev rules would be good. Perhaps you can also try reading DSD's udev rules writing guide? (I didn't have a use for it (yet) so I'm only going the simple path) :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:26:42 up 13:28, 8 users, load average: 0.28, 0.45, 0.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
