Mounting USB devices with stable names

[Mike McCarty]

Phil Savoie wrote:
> On November 10, 2006 12:56, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I have an issue which will shortly be important to me, though
>>in past it has not been a problem. It appears to me that it
>>may be a general problem in some ways.
>>
>>I have for some time used an external USB hard drive. I find that
>>sometimes it must be mounted as /dev/sda1 and sometimes /dev/sde1,
>>and have consequently made two entries in my /etc/fstab, and just
>>live with what I have. This occurs even though the disc is always
>>plugged into the same USB port.
>>
>>I now have a USB FLASH drive, and so this is going to be more
>>of a problem, as I have different file systems on those, and
>>have a need to specify the mount NOT to be "auto" to ascertain
>>the fs type, since I am overriding the default for the FLASH
>>drive. In any case, the FLASH drive is also not always appearing
>>as the same device. I don't want to have to become root and
>>fiddle /etc/fstab every time I try to mount the FLASH drive.
>>
>>I've seen others here with what appears to be a similar problem
>>with running two ethernet ports, and not being able to know
>>which will be eth0. I wonder whether this be related.
>>
>>In any case, would some please give me advice on how to handle
>>the "floating" USB devices?
>>
>>Thanks very muchly for your time.
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> You may want to read up here:
> 
> http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
> 
> Hope this helps,

I have only just very briefly looked at the subject, and it indeed
seems to address the issue. I have yet to ascertain whether it
is the solution I'm looking for. But I'm sending this just to say:

Thanks so much for the pointer.

Mike
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