Jim Kyle <[email protected]> wrote on 04/03/2012 05:21:29 PM:
> On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at 3:49:12 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
> > And because sometimes the drive that I insert will be perfectly blank
(a
> > new drive), I can't use something like a drive label: it might not
have
> > one!
>
> Don't you have to partition and format the new drive before it can be
used?
Sure, and that's what my script does.
> If you do, you could write a "standard" disk label to it at that time,
and
> then use that standard label in the udev rule or even to mount the drive
if
> your version of fstab allows drives to be specified by label.
And how exactly does the script know what device name that drive will use
*before* I put that "standard" label on it? I've already shown that the
device name the drive gets is quasi-random (race condition), and if the
script guesses wrong I wipe out a drive in my RAID array! :)
If I could get Seagate et. al. to put my "standard" disk label on the
drive from the factory, I'd be golden. But until they do, I need to make
sure that the blank drive *before* initialization shows up in the right
place. And if I make that work consistently, then I don't *need* the
label! :)
Tim Massey
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