[CentOS] forcing device to USB HDD

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 19:03:45 UTC 2007


Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:16 PM -0400 "Michael D. Kralka" 
> <michael.kralka at kvs.com> wrote:
> 
>> You can always set up a udev rule that will give the drive a known alias
>> (e.g. "backup_drive") based on some fixed information that is stored in
>> sysfs (such as vendor or model). Your scripts can then use the alias
>> instead of the real drive name.
>>
>> This article is a little out of date, but might be useful:
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/

What if you have more than one identical device and might want to plug 
more than one in at once?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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