Les Mikesell wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: >> --On Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:16 PM -0400 "Michael D. Kralka" >> <michael.kralka@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> You can always set up a udev rule that will give the drive a known alias >>> (e.g. "backup_drive") based on some fixed information that is stored in >>> sysfs (such as vendor or model). Your scripts can then use the alias >>> instead of the real drive name. >>> >>> This article is a little out of date, but might be useful: >>> >>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/ > > What if you have more than one identical device and might want to plug > more than one in at once? I would suspect including the serial number (along with vendor and model) to the udev rules would suffice. The probability that two devices will have a matching vendor, model, and serial number is infinitesimal, if not zero. Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos