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webofunni

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From: India

Registered: 2009-05-25

Posts: 53

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Udev rule question.

Hello,

  I have written a udev rule to change the name of the external hard disk to /dev/external.

SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{model}=="ST3120827AS", NAME="external"

The code is like the above. That works also. But the problem is that. without that rule my device creates 2 device nodes.

1. sdb for the drive
2. sdb1 for the one partition in it.

  The mount command without the rule will show that the device sdb1 is mounted on /media. But after adding that rule only one device node is created at /dev/external and there is no second device like I expected ( ie /dev/external1 ). Why it is like that ? Any idea ?

  Is there anything wrong in my udev rule ?

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hbekel

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 311

Re: Udev rule question.

try this:

SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{model}=="ST3120827AS", KERNEL=="sd*", SYMLINK+="external%n"