[KLUG Members] udev problem

[Bruce Damkoehler]

That's how I learned about it. I would buy flash drives any they would 
come up mounted by name. What I don't know is how to put a different 
label on a fat filesystem.




Mike Williams wrote:
> 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:
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>>
>> 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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