On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:31:16PM -0500, John Morris alleged: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:27:58AM -0700, Dominic Rivera wrote: > > > Now if only linux could get away from it's retarded device name > > > assignments which are done by order of discovery > > > > If you use device and volume labels, why do you care? > > Devlabel, volume labels and such can't solve all problems yet. For > example, when my Thinkpad is standalone a flash memory card in the CF slot > is /dev/hde1 but when docked it gets /dev/hdi1. Yes if you only have a > couple of cards you can assign volume labels or have devlabel look at the > serial number, etc. But what you can't have is /mnt/CF and have any > arbitrary CF memory card automount there. Or at least I haven't found a > way. I just made /mnt/CF1 and /mnt/CF2, added fstab entries and moved on > to the next problem. You might want to see how mandrake solves that problem... usb hotplug scripts ad supermount entries in /etc/fstab, so you get a consistent /mnt/removeable that you never need to manually mount. I believe the second card would get /mnt/removable1 (but I've not tested that). -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California
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