[LBo] /dev/sda4

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Hi Howard,

Although I am not familiar with SuSE 10.1, it could be possible that the 
kernel has a utility called supermount.  Mandriva has this.  I believe that 
if there is a disk in the device it will mount automatically if the device is 
listed in the fstab file.  If there is not a disk in the device it will not 
mount.  Slackware does not have this.  It must be manually mounted whenever 
one wants to use it.

Terry
 
On Monday 04 September 2006 05:07 pm, Howard Rosen wrote:
> Anita,
>
> Thanks for the comments below.  I've been meaning to investigate this
> udev, as it seems recent and I did see in in SuSE 9.3, as well as 10.1.
>
> My wife and I took a break from the house and drove to Bristol, Pa on
> the banks of the Delaware River, where I had a chance to think about
> this problem and the emails and it seemed to make sense that /dev/sda4
> was only available as needed.  I'll investigate and see what else is
> there.
>
> Howard
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:18 -0400, Anita Lewis wrote:
> > On 09/04/2006 12:39 PM Howard Rosen wrote:
> > > Anita,
> > >
> > > I shut the computer down, took a shower, shaved and presented myself to
> > > the computer nice and clean.
> > >
> > > Then I opened a terminal and look what happened:
> > >
> > > linux:/home/hrosen70 # modprobe imm
> > > linux:/home/hrosen70 # mount /dev/sda4 /media/zip100.0/
> > > linux:/home/hrosen70 # ls /media/zip100.0/
> > > Burtch  Favorites  Howard Lillian  Howard & Lillian  ira  irs_2006
> > > Linux  NNdbase.txt
> > > linux:/home/hrosen70 #
> > >
> > > Yes, the last line - response to ls - are what are on the zip drive.
> > > Now how do we explain what previously happened?  Thanks for your
> > > support.
> > >
> > > Howard
> >
> > Devices are created as they are needed with udev.  To avoid the problem
> > of whether the device is /dev/sdb4 or /dev/sda4 or whatever, you can
> > make it irrelevant so that the zip will always be on /dev/zip.  In fact,
> > that may already be in the udev rules.
> >
> > First check to see what the info on the device is:
> >
> > $ udevinfo -p /sys/block/sda/sda4 -a |less
> >
> > http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/using/using_udev tells you more.
> > Specifically look at the Zip section.
> >
> > Now that I'm using Edgy, the syntax has changed a bit so that it is
> > using double equal signs, but I don't think you will encounter that in
> > SUSE 10.1 yet.  You can tell when you look at the files in
> > /etc/udev/rules.d  There may be a rule already there for Zip drive, but
> > it might be the one that creates the /dev/sda4 or whatever.  It seems
> > better to me to use /dev/zip as what it gets loaded on.
> >
> > Then in /etc/fstab I have /dev/zip  /media/zip (I decided to use /media
> > rather than /mnt since that seems to be the standard now.
> >
> > Anita