Making directories from a rule

Making directories from a rule

[DervishD]

    Hi all :)

    I'll try to explain this shortly: I have some rules that assign new
"NAME"'s to some devices, namely external USB hard disks. Currently, I
have subdirs in my /media dir for all of them, but since I use hard
disks from my friends from time to time, the list is growing a bit. So,
instead of having all those dirs created, I would like to have udev to
make the directories for me.

    My problem is that I must have a separate rule to make the dir for
every and each device, since a generic rule, like 'ACTION="add", ...,
RUN+="/bin/mkdir /media/%k"' won't work (it takes the original kernel
name, like sde1, instead of the changed name, like bigdisk).

    So far, the only solution, apart of having a rule for every and each
different device, is to have an external program doing all the
translations and use "%c".

    Is there any way of using the changed NAME in a posterior rule to
create the dirs without having to resort to use environment variables or
an external program to do the naming?

    Thanks :))))

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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