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Is it possible to have a custom /dev name for a device such as a hard drive or flashdrive? (To the extent of like /dev/foo or something)
I have a external hard drive that is ntfs and is too big to move the data over and change to ext4, or reiserfs, or something. (and my flash drive is a fat32 so it can interface with winblows comuters) the two of them fight over the /dev/sdb1 slot and if I edit fstab as auto type I still have the problem of having ntfs complain in e17 and I have to manually mount it with sudo but if fstab have it set to ntfs then it mounts perfectly. So my question is:
Is there a way to give my drives custom /dev names?
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Have you looked at the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ directory?
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If I understand you correctly your problem is that your two external drives "fight over the /dev/sdb" device node, i.e. either one may get assigned the sdb device node depending which one gets plugged in first.
For consistent device naming/access you can either use your drive's uuid, id or path. Check out the symlinks in the subdirectories created below /dev/disk/.
Alternatively you can use udev to create consistently named symlinks when one of your drives gets plugged in (e.g. create /dev/external and /dev/flash or whatever you like). See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
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It's called udev, and Arch installs it by default.
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Yeah you can do it, and i have before but i found it isn't really necessary, take a look at my blog if you like:
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