[ale] persistent mount points on removable devices

[Michael Hirsch]

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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