[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question

[Chris Cox]

Mike LaPlante wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
>> All
>> I have two external USB hard drives on my Linux box, they never get 
>> unplugged, and they are listed in fstab.  But on boot they don't always 
>> come back as expected - the one I think of a ONE, might come back as 
>> TWO, etc.  Is that just a feature of the beast?  BTW - Restarting 
>> usually fixes that.
>> Regards
>> Fred James
>>   
> You can setup Udev rules to identify each drive and create symlinks such 
> as /dev/usbdriveONE and /dev/usbdriveTWO.
> 
> The idea is to setup a rule that on boot detects things like 
> make/model/serial number and creates a symlink from /dev/sdb1 to 
> /dev/usbdriveONE. While the device may differ from sdb to sdc on each 
> boot, the symlink should remain correct. So you would use the symlink in 
> your fstab.
> 
> Afraid I won't be much help giving specific instructions though, I had a 
> hell of time getting the rule for my two PVR cards to work right. Ended 
> up just taking stabs at it and lots of reboots later it seemed to be 
> working so I've left it alone ever since.
> 
> This site may be of help if you're up to the long read.
> 
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

You can read my unfinished article (it's cluttered at the bottom
with junk... thus... it's unfinished).. you have to log
into the ntlug site do view it though...

Use GuestReader and the word guest written twice to login
as the password.

If that helps...