Question about use of multiple USB Mass Storage devices

[Rick Stevens]

Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:26:50 -0800
> Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>devlabel creates a symbolic link between the physical device and a
>>mnemonic name (sort of like the way "/dev/cdrom" points at "/dev/hdb"
>>or whatever).  It also reads the UUID from the device if it has one (it
>>creates one otherwise) and puts an entry in the /etc/sysconfig/devlabel
>>file that it can use later to recreate the symbolic link if the device
>>name changes (such as would happen if the USB bus changes).
> 
> <snip>
> 
> First, it helps if you have devlabel installed.  I never even heard of this
> program before!
> 
> This is a great tip!  I've seen this question asked before and this is the
> first time I seen a workable solution for linking a USB device to a
> particular mountpoint.

Hey, even a blind pig finds the occasional truffle!  ;-)
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