[KLUG Members] udev problem

[Mike Williams]

That might work.  Most of the filesystems need to be portable, though, 
so the devices are formatted FAT32.  Can you mount fat32 by volume label?

Bruce Damkoehler wrote:

>
> This isn't a udev suggestion, but it its something that I used to do 
> to get the same effect. If you give the disk a volume label it should 
> come up mounted with that label. You can give it a label when you 
> create the filesystem on it, or after the fact. The mechanism varies 
> based on filesystem type, but for reiserfs you can do it via 
> "mkfs.reiserfs -label your_label /dev/sda1 (or whatever the device 
> is)"  when creating the filesystem or via "reisefstune -label 
> your_label /dev/sda1 (or whatever the device is)" after the filesystem 
> is created.
>
> It will come up mounted as /mnt/your_label or /media/your_label.
>
>
> Mike Williams wrote:
>
>> I need to fiddle with udev to get my removable devices to show up in 
>> the same place all the time.  I've got a USB thumbdrive, a printer 
>> with memory card slot, and a blackberry that are all supported under 
>> usb mass storage.  I also have a an external drive hooked up through 
>> ieee1394.  I know in principle how to write udev rules for the USB 
>> devices to add a link to them, but it doesn't work.  I don't even 
>> know how to tell udev about the ieee1394 drive!  Any expert advice 
>> out there?
>>
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