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On 3 Oct 2009, at 20:11, daid kahl wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>>> Another useful notion is to use udev to automount flash drives (or |
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>>> external usb harddrives) to a specified location based on serial |
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>>> number. ... I can either give an overview or dig up the url if |
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>>> anyone likes. |
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>> I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual "automount drives |
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>> with udev" guides. Am I wrong? |
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>> This is the way I have always intended to approach this problem, so |
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>> I'd be grateful to be corrected in advance if there's a better way. |
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> That's correct, except not all of these guides discuss the drive |
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> serial number. If you want to ensure that different drives are |
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> mounted at different points, you have to rely on the device serial |
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> (since the /dev nodes are filled in order of the device connection, |
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> regardless of which drive it is). |
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> There are plenty of guides that mention how to find the serial |
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> number and how to write the correct udev rules, but most the guides |
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> are outdated and suggest use of the symlink udevinfo, which was |
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> removed upstream recently. So, to get a device's serial number, for |
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> example (replace /dev/sdb with the correct node) : |
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> # udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep |
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> ATTRS{serial} |
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> and use the (first) serial that doesn't have colons and periods. |
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> Then for the udev rule you just need to include ATTRS{serial}==" |
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> 0000000000" |
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> This is also useful when you have external harddrives that use ext3 |
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> formatting and flashdrives that don't. |
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Ooooops... I omitted a paste - I went to a terminal to check the |
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details and then appear to have completely forgotten to include them. |
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Thus my question is misphrased & incomplete. |
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I intended to ask: |
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I'd have assumed you simple used any of the usual "automount |
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drives with udev" guides, but based their entry in "/dev/disk/by- |
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uuid/". Am I wrong? |
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How do you find the serial, please? I'm guessing from `dmesg`? |
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I think the entry in "/dev/disk/by-uuid/" may change if you reformat |
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the drive, so your response is most helpful. |
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Thank you for your help, |
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Stroller. |
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