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From: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules and boot + SCSI disks
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:00:38
Message-Id: 5bc4c4570605300653n6fea4712p6ab58d6091fb4100@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules and boot + SCSI disks by Richard Fish
1 Richard,
2
3 when I change any rules, should I have to execute a command in order
4 to update the udev rules?
5
6 Thank you,
7
8 Leandro.
9
10 2006/5/30, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>:
11 > On 5/29/06, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > > BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="SAMSUNG SP123245", NAME="/dev/sda"
13 > > BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="SysOp ", NAME="/dev/sdb"
14 > > BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="Dados ", NAME="/dev/sdc"
15 >
16 > 1. You probably need the ":=" syntax to prevent later rules from
17 > over-riding your settings. For example, in 50-udev.rules, I see:
18 > 50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="sd*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk"
19 >
20 > 2. You should not have the "/dev/" part of NAME.
21 >
22 > 3. You probably also need to handle the partitions with the %n syntax
23 >
24 > So those rules should be more like:
25 >
26 > BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sd*", SYSFS{model}=="SAMSUNG SP123245", NAME:="sda%n"
27 > BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sd*", SYSFS{model}=="SysOp ", NAME:="sdb%n"
28 > BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sd*", SYSFS{model}=="Dados ", NAME:="sdc%n"
29 >
30 > You might also consider using LVM on these disks, so you need not care
31 > about sdX, or mounting them by fileystem label.
32 >
33 > -Richard
34 > --
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36 >
37 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules and boot + SCSI disks Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>