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
Isn't so much easier to use labels? Those are automatically available on /dev/disk/by-label, and you can use them in basically any type of partition, including Windows (NTFS and vfat) and swaps. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
