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From: Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB Mass Storage Devices
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:22:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bne88l$jap$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067097757.10057.15.camel@Abydos>

Thorsten Alge wrote:
> I want to use my usb hd and my usb mp3-player an my linux computer. if i
> plug them on on after one, they will assigned as sda (i.e. my usb hd)
> and sdb (my mp3-player) . so i can add them to /etc/fstab. the problem
> is; if i plug on only one of them or in another order, the device files
> are changed to and the mount points are not correct. 
> 
> my first idea was to use volume labels. that works fine with my ext2
> partition but i don't helps on my vfat partitions. the compactflash
> cards an two of my partitions on my usb-hd must be vfat partitions. 
> 
> any ideas how to fix? 

i have this same problem and i cannot get it resolved. i believe with 
"devfs" you can get consistent device names?? not sure, but debian 
does not have devfs, so i need a different solution. i was hoping 
there was some "hotplug" script that would link the plugged in device 
to whatever system device it was assigned to, but i have found nothing.

help please?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-25 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-25 16:02 USB Mass Storage Devices Thorsten Alge
2003-10-25  9:29 ` James Miller
2003-10-25 16:22 ` Pete Shinners [this message]
2003-10-26  8:24   ` Nathan Clayton

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