[ale] Forcing usb drive maps?

[James Sumners]

Check out this tutorial for mapping USB devices to the same device
node every time it is connected --
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Using_udev_to_map_multiple_entries_to_a_device

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Lets say you have 3 USB drives.  2 of them are in a RAID1 config and
> one is
> /mnt/Data
>
> When I reboot, occasionally they'll come up in different orders so that the
> RAID1 doesn't start and /mnt/Data has the wrong info.   With raw filesystems
> you can mount UUID, but you can't do that with a drive to form the MD5.
> Anyone
> know of something along the UUID route that can keep some form of
> persistancy
> with USB drives?
>
> Robert



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