[ale] USB "duplicate" drive issue on CentOS

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Fri Jun 17 09:17:14 EDT 2016


For the OP, bus and port and usb serial don't really matter.  He's
getting reliable /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks -- doesn't need more.  But an
udev rule can run a script on any newly inserted disk to check if it's a
backup disk, and which one, and conditionally spawn the backup process.

On 06/16/2016 11:52 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>     *From: *"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>

>     However, these devices I'm using do not have unique serial numbers which
>     is why I'm working with them via their bus number.

> I do the same.  USB port = tty name



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