[LBo] /dev/sda4

[Howard Rosen]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:18 -0400, Anita Lewis wrote:
> 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.
Once there I executed the command suggested:
udevinfo -p /sys/block/sda/sda1 -a |less

There was no infomation provided, so I did my usual mount of the zip
drive and then when the above command was again executed, and there was
a lot of useful information provided.

> 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. 

Yes, the double "=" signs are used.

>  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.
> 
I didn't see a rule that appears to be for the zip drive.  I'll have to
do some experimenting here.

Howard

> 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