Re: usbdisks ID key

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

bntly_rhds wrote:

> is there a metafile that is put at the beginning of the directory 
> structure for usbdisks, so that wehn the disk is put in the system 
> checks it against fstab so it will confirm that the mount point is 
> indeed supposed to be /media/tyblen and not /media/usbdisk?  is there 
> a way to recommend this to the development team if it is not being 
> implemented already?  i figure even if there is another disk that 
> somehow was mounted as /dev/sda(x) then at least it would have its own 
> folder.  or the metafile could contain that on THIS computer it is 
> mounted at /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk, and on  YOUR computer its mounted 
> at /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk.
>
I haven't looked at the details and I'm not using it myself yet, but 
wasn't udev designed to handle this sort of thing? I would discuss it 
with Greg Kroah-Hartmann on the LKML; he maintains udev, lots of USB 
stuff, and possibly still hotplug.

Dave

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