* why no "by-label" for removable?
@ 2005-10-31 5:15 Aras Vaichas
2005-10-31 14:29 ` Kay Sievers
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From: Aras Vaichas @ 2005-10-31 5:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
I've just been pulling my hair out wondering why I could't create a
"/dev/disks/by-label" when I finally noticed this common line in udev rules
examples:
KERNEL="*[!0-9]", SYSFS{removable}="1", GOTO="persistent_end"
Is there a particular reason for this?
The FAQ mentions using a /dev/disks/by-label entry for a PENDRIVE, but surely a
PENDRIVE would be considered removable and thus the "by-label" would never be
created?
regards,
Aras Vaichas
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2005-10-31 5:15 why no "by-label" for removable? Aras Vaichas
@ 2005-10-31 14:29 ` Kay Sievers
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From: Kay Sievers @ 2005-10-31 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:15:47PM +1100, Aras Vaichas wrote:
> I've just been pulling my hair out wondering why I could't create a
> "/dev/disks/by-label" when I finally noticed this common line in udev rules
> examples:
>
> KERNEL="*[!0-9]", SYSFS{removable}="1", GOTO="persistent_end"
>
> Is there a particular reason for this?
>
> The FAQ mentions using a /dev/disks/by-label entry for a PENDRIVE, but
> surely a PENDRIVE would be considered removable and thus the "by-label"
> would never be created?
This rule exists to prevent optical drives from beeing probed for its
filesystem, which doesn't make sense, cause they will not be updated on
media changes.
But right, we may want to identify an optical drive in some smarter way,
or all usb storage drives will need a partition table to work with that
rule. :)
Kay
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