Eric S. Johansson wrote: > in playing with USB flash drives on systems with SCSI disks, every > time I boot with the flagstick installed, it gets assigned to /dev/sda > and the SCSI drives are assigned to subsequent /dev/sdX device names. > But when I remove the USB drive, all assignments shift down and things > like mount points get royally screwed up. > > is there any way I can assign the usb flash drive to some guaranteed > to be unused sdX device name and let the SCSI devices be allocated > normally or force the USB flash device to be detected after the SCSI > disks so that it is assigned to the end of the list of SCSI devices? > > my goal is to get the SCSI disk device name assignments to be the same > whether or not the flash drive is present. > > ---eric
I solve this by using the LABEL= syntax in /etc/fstab instead of the device name for my usb key and external 2.5" disk, and by using LVM on my external 3.5" disks. I would recommend trying LVM on the SCSI disks, which would give you a static "/dev/mapper/..." device node, and the LABEL= or udev rule for your USB key. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
