[ale] Re; simple question

[Christopher Fowler]

I figured out the way my SuSE does it is with subfs:

http://altlinux.org/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=kernel-modules-subfs-vs-smp

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:27, Danny Cox wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:48 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > I typed udev at the command line and got nada -- not even
> > the usual "No such command"
> > Tried hotplug and got this:
> > Usage: /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug AgentName [AgentArguments]
> > AgentName values on this system:  dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi 
> > tape usb
> > 
> > 
> > This is even less illuminating than the man page.
> > Obviously the solution to this _very_ common problem is still
> > non-trivial.
> 
> 	I just went through much of this with my Lego USB Tower IR transceiver.
> The basic idea is: you plug in the drive, and the necessary commands
> execute to create a file with a very long name in /sys.  Then, two more
> files come into play.  They are /etc/udev/permissions.d/*
> and /etc/udev/rules.d/*.  The permissions.d entry (which can live in any
> one of several files in that directory) looks like:
> 
> sd*:root:disk:0660
> 
> the first arg (separated by colons) is a shell-glob that matches the
> name of the device.  The next two are the owner user and group, and the
> third is the octal permissions (rw-rw---- in this case).
> 
> 	A simple rules.d entry looks like this:
> 
> KERNEL="legousbtower*", NAME="usb/%k"
> 
> shamelessly stolen off the 'net.  There are so many variables (the
> KERNEL and NAME strings above, for instance) that I can't possibly
> include them all in this missive.  At any rate, the rules file should
> point you toward finding how to name your backup USB drive to a constant
> entry in /dev.
> 
> 	Hope this helps!
> 
> 	See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7316 for a better explanation
> than the above.