[Cialug] Usb devices and filesystem black magic

[Nathan Stien]

On 5/31/07, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not even sure how to ask this question.  How can you use USB devices -
> like hard drives and flash drives, and make sure they are mounted the same
> way each time the machine restarts?  Also, if a USB device refuses to talk,
> even though you see it in lsusb, is there a way to reset it?  I'm not doing
> anything 'fancy', I just want USB drives in the same place next time the
> machine starts.  I can achieve my goal now by plugging them in in a specific
> order.

Google udev.

You might want to look at these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7316
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

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