[ale] persistent mount points on removable devices

[Jay Loden]

Do you know what the status us with udev?  I was having sound problems 
previously that were apaparently related to udev not being properly supported 
under the 2.6.7 kernel I was running. 

I don't know that I want to install udev, I'm kind of concerned it will hose 
something else, and I'll have to go around cleaning up broken parts of my 
system afterward. 

-Jay

On Monday 31 January 2005 12:12 pm, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> Udev is the way to go--it is not gentoo specific.  Mandrake has a "udev"
> package, and I thing SuSE does too., so that is the name to search for.
>
> A few months back Linux Journal had an article about it.  If anyone
> would like to give and ALE Central talk on udev, I'd look favorably on
> them.
>
> Michael
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>
> David
>
> > Corbin
> > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:18 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org; jloden at toughguy.net
> > Subject: Re: [ale] persistent mount points on removable devices
> >
> > On Gentoo, there is a "udev" package that is a replacement for devfs.
>
> It
>
> > allows you configure specific devices to fixed filenames.  I don't
>
> know if
>
> > this is gentoo specific, part of the linux kernel, or an independent
> > project.
> >
> > On Sunday 30 January 2005 02:06 am, Jay Loden wrote:
> > > I have an iPod and an external CD drive and an external hard drive,
>
> all
>
> > of
> >
> > > which I will be connecting to my laptop via firewire during my
>
> semester
>
> > > abroad (starting Tuesday).  I would like to know if there is a way
>
> for
>
> > me
> >
> > > to plug in my iPod, for example, and have it mount /mnt/iPod, or
>
> plug in
>
> > my
> >
> > > external drive and have it mount '/mnt/maxtor' or what have you.
> > >
> > > This way I can use things like gtkpod, etc to mount the drive and I
>
> will
>
> > be
> >
> > > able to control where it mounts without having to manually specify.
> >
> > (This
> >
> > > is on Debian 2.6.8)
> > >
> > > I don't need it to automount the drives, but I'd like to be able to,
>
> for
>
> > > example, let gtkpod mount my iPod for me, which requires it to stay
> > > consistent. I've noticed that if I remove a device and reconnect it,
>
> it
>
> > > often comes up as a different block device...how can I get around
>
> this?
>
> > > Can I set labels and set fstab to mount by label?
> > >
> > > -Jay
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