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On Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:08, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck schrieb: |
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> > On Saturday, 23 December 2006 2:40, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> so as you plugin a USB-disk, the kernel will recognize it, and it will |
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> >> be called sda, sdb, sdc or whatever ... |
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> >> |
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> >> I don't like that - why doesn't it get some more usefull device-name? |
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> >> Some device name, that |
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> >> a) indicates, that it is usb (for example put them to /dev/usb) and |
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> >> b) uses a numering not depending on how many harddisk there are in the |
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> >> system |
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> >> |
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> >> So for example /dev/usb/uda could be a symlink to /dev/sdb, |
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> >> /dev/usb/uda1 a symlink to /dev/sdb1 etc. |
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> >> (In this case, sda would be a normal harddisk, which is the reason why |
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> >> the usb-device is sdb) |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> So i don't know any other distribution doing it like that. So what do |
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> >> you think? |
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> >> - is it possible? |
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> >> - is it a good idea? |
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> >> - is it such a good idea, so that gentoo becomes the first distribution |
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> >> doing it? |
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> >> - is it a bad idea to differ from all the other distros out there? |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> Thanks, |
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> >> Sven |
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> > |
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> > Take a look at the contents of /dev/disk/ or if you don't like that, read |
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> > up on writing your own udev rules and you can give devices whatever |
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> > device node you want. |
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> /dev/disk is tooo fine grained. |
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> Imagine, i would be an administrator of lots of Linux-PCs in an |
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> unversity. What do i know about the label, uuid, path or id of the |
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> usb-stick that the user plugs into an arbitrary USB-plug of the computer? |
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> Well, not enough to use /dev/disk actually: |
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> i don't know the label |
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> i don't know the exact path |
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> i don't know the id |
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> and i guess i also don't know the uuid. |
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> So if i wanted to create a mountpoint for the first three usb mass |
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> storage devices (asuming, they only have one partition, as usual), i |
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> wouldn't be abled to do it. |
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> I will write my own udev-rules then - that's alright for me. |
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> Thanks for the hints/suggestions to all who answered! |
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> Greetings, |
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> Sven |
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If you're using KDE or Gnome use dbus and hal to allow users to mount |
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removeable drives without fstab entries or if you're not using KDE or Gnome |
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you can use pmount to the same effect. These will allow users to mount any |
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removeable drives they insert into the computer without anyone having to care |
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what device node the device is using. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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