From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932409AbVHNDWD (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:22:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932426AbVHNDWD (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:22:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:15797 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbVHNDWB (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:22:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:20:46 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd? Message-Id: <20050813202046.50c41405.zaitcev@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <4pzyn-10f-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <4AubX-4w6-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050812103832.28ff17a0.zaitcev@redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:06:16 +0200 (CEST), Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:49:28 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > > > Which label will a random USB stick have? > > > > GUID, I presume. > > A global unique ID won't work out to make all USB mass storage devices > appear under a common mountpoint, especially if it is recreated while > "formating" it. That is correct, but not what Dervish wanted. He wanted to mount them on separate pre-assigned mount points. If you want all of them to mount on the same place, just use /dev/sda1! -- Pete