Managing USB device names

Kevin Downey redchin at gmail.com
Fri May 25 19:12:21 UTC 2007


On 5/25/07, Chris Kottaridis <chriskot at quietwind.net> wrote:
> I am using USB to connect an external disk drive. It seems to get
> assigned a different device name when it connects in. The names seem to
> cycle through /dev/da* where * is changing on each disconnect and
> reconnect.
>
> With this going on I can't add a /etc/fstab entry.
>
> Is there a tool/package that can manage things so that when I plug in
> the device it will get mounted to a specific directory without manual
> intervention ?
>
> Thanks
>     Chris Kottaridis    (chriskot at quietwind.net)

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