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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:00:27 -0700
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:22:43 +0200, DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> wrote:

>     I'm not using hotplug currently so... how can I make the USB
> subsystem to assign always the same /dev/sd? entry to my USB Mass
> storage devices? [...]

You cannot. Just mount by label or something... Better yet, install
something like Fedora Core 4, which uses HAL, and forget about it.
The fstab-sync takes care of the rest.

-- Pete