On 09Jan2007 21:44, Andy Allen <andy.allen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Sounds to me like the flash drive is being seen on something other than | > /dev/sda. Have you tried /dev/sdc or sdd? I've seen this happen a | > couple of times with mine, but haven't found a way to force it to one | > devince name. | > -- | > Ita erat quando hic adveni. | > Mark Haney I believe that in principle you can write a UDEV rule to make a symlink of consistent name for specific devices.You might track the UUID for per-device tracking or some kind of class for generic "I just plugged in a thumb drive" stuff. Disclaimer: I'm not a udev guru and cannot write such a rule for you, but I've seen examples in udev tutorials. Maybe these days there's some handy tool to auto-roll a udev rule.. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ [Alain] had been looking at his dashboard, and had not seen me, so I ran into him. - Jean Alesi on his qualifying prang at Imola '93 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list