On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:03 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi All. > > No, this is not about the auto-mounter. What I am trying to do is > figure out how to consistently mount a given usb-storage device no > matter the order it was inserted. > > A little background. I am running Testing on a Thinkpad 390E with the > kernel-image 2.4.26 and hotplug packages. I have a camera that is > recognized by Hotplug as a usb-storage device and a memory stick that > is recognized as a usb-storage device as well. I put a custom user.map > in /etc/hotplug/usb and the devices are recognized and run my custom > script. So far, so good. > > The first device inserted after a system restart (or hotplug restart) > will become /dev/sda1 and the second will be /dev/sdb1 (both are single > partitioned vfat devices). This is also good, but also where my trouble > starts. I would like to be able to write a custom script that can > figure out which device file the currently inserted device is > associated with and mount it at certain directory. To do it manually > I have to guess, but I would imagine the kernel stores this somewhere > in /proc and I have yet to find it. > > I find that /proc/partitions will give the major/minor device numbers > of filesystem devices, but I haven't figured out some way to associate > the USB device to a given partition. > > I am using the Debian 2.4.26 kernel and the hotplug package and would > like to be able to mount the devices in my filesystem each time they > are inserted. Has anyone tackled this? I understand that this is much > easier/possible on the 2.6 kernels, but I haven't been able to get 2.6 > to support my older Thinkpad as well as 2.4 does. > > I can work around this by having a couple of different mount lines in > fstab, but that isn't as elegant as I would like to implement. >
easiest way is to use 2.6 kernel, hotplug, and udev. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
