[ale] Re; simple question

[Michael Hirsch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Sean
> Kilpatrick
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:42 PM
> To: Ale
> Subject: [ale] Re; simple question
> 
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:52 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> | Has nothing to do with your entry in fstab, unfortunately.  You're
going
> | to have to look at either hotplug or udev, depending on your kernel.
> | Personally, I've found nothing but frustration when trying to get
this
> | to work on older kernels.  On SuSE 9.2 it just works.  Sweet.
> 
> Okay,
> I read the man pages for both hotplug and udev. My eyes glazed over
> each time. <grin/sigh> I have absolutely no clue what it is I must
> actually _do_ to activate either of these programs and have them
> automagically deal with the problem of assigning a unique /dev to
> each removable device.  That is the USB hard drive will _always_ be
> sda1 or sd(whatever)1 every time it is plugged in.

I recommend this article from the Linux Journal: 
http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/7316

I had to log in to read the article.  I don't remember if I could only
get a login because I was a subscriber or not.

Michael