[vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

[Matthew Holland]

To add to what Ken said, if you're using udev, you should be able to get a
stable device identifier by looking in /dev/disk/by-id.  Usually the name
there is informative enough to just figure it directly.  Recent Fedora and
Ubuntu distros have this facility.  You can then use /dev/disk/by-id/xxxx in
/etc/fstab as Ken suggested.
Matt

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:49 -0500, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thank you very much for all your answers.  After testing some of your
> > suggestions I "discovered" that It is after all a USB drive and as
> > root I have to umount it before logging out so the other users can
> > mount it and use it...
> >
> > Too bad USB drives do not behave like "real attached drives".  Well.
> > Like the Rolling Stones would say: You can't always get what you want.
> >
> > Have a nice one!
> >
> > Alfredo
>
> That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives
> are thumb drives and the like, single-user disks that come and go. You
> can change that, though.
>
> Create a rule to identify the device uniquely in udev and to assign it a
> permenant device node (I can't tell you exactly how to do this, it will
> depend on being able to find something like a serial number that udev
> can use to identify it.), then add that device node to /etc/fstab, with
> appropriate mount options.
>
> Just out of curiousity, what's the block size (the size occupied by a 1
> byte file) on a 1 TB fat32 drive?
>
> --Ken
>
> --
> Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
> http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
>
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