On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts > with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running > Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work > well with any USB disks that happen to also be attached? > > crw------- 1 root root 252, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p2 >
Admittedly I don't know how to do what you are asking, but my experience has shown me the better solution is likely to modify your management script and to store the device-specific configuration external to the script and associate it with the device. R0b0t1.
