Assign one USB-storage device to one device file

Misel · 08-27-2004, 01:25 PM

Hello,

I have several USB-storage devices that I regularly use (camera, cardreaders, usb-discs ...).

They all work fine but they always get a different device-file depending on the order I plug them in.

So how can I make sure that my camere for example is always on /dev/sda, my hard-discs on /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, no matter when or in which order I plug them into my PC to make it easier to maintain them in /etc/fstab?

Is that even possible at all?

r0b0 · 08-28-2004, 04:52 AM

Yes it is. You need kernel 2.6 and udev.
When you get this working, you can write rules for udev to assign devices to device files. See http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
R.