I saw a utility somewhere that ran on a Linux system that kept the same location (i.e. sda1) when you removed and reinserted a USB pen drive. Does anyone have any idea what that was? The reason I ask is sometimes I remove and reinsert my pen drive and it doesn't get mounted because it went from sda1 to sdb1. Any ideas?

Udev can remember fixed locations, but I find it too much work to handle.

I'm using KDE 3.5.2, a 2.16.16 kernel and udev-064.

I have an icon for my flash drive on the desktop.

I Don't have any problems with the device changing to /dev/sdb1 when I unplug and plug it back in.


What kernel/etc do U have?

Forrest

I have a problem along those lines. Instead of having a location problem of my flash drive, I want to mount it with the 'async' option.

Open Suse 10.0 uses a submount hal daemon, and I can't seem to get it to mount it the way I want it.

Last night I tried to write a udev rule, but with little success.

In the messages file the hal-subfs-mount apparently "gathers mount options" and then mounts it with the option of 'sync', wich makes it unusably slow.

@DrBergie


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- disable sync for mount -->
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
<match key="@info.parent:storage.bus" string="usb">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Save the above as nosync.fdi and place it in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/
and restart hal with 'rchal restart'. This turns off the synce option for any USB mounts.

The line "<match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">"

wil, if I assume correctly, only turn on no syncing for usb filesystems?

USB Mice for example won't realy benifit from having all their IO buffered.

Thanks for the reply tho!