There is a pretty good description of how 'devlabel' works in RHEL3
docs, so far I cannot find similar references in the RHEL4 SAG manual...
-HTH Art
RHEL3-SAG - User-Defined Device Names
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-devlabel.html
What is devlabel and how do I use it - RHELKB
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_4625.shtm
RHEL4 IntroSysAdmin - Device Naming Conventions - devlabel
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/admin-guide/s1-storage-rhlspec.html#S2-STORAGE-RHLSPEC-NAMING
http://linux.dell.com/devlabel/devlabel.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device
http://www.linux-usb.org/
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Well, I was wrong.
> I have double checked, and it seems that this hotplug function *only*
> works on a DOS filesystem, not an ext3 filesysem.
> So, hopefully someone knows how to tweek hotplug to look at the ext3
> file system labels.
>
> Troy
>
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Hi Eve,
>> I sorta thought someone would have replied to this by now.
>> I'm not totally sure. Everytime I try to tweak with hotplug I only
>> end up messing it up, so I'm out of suggestions.
>>
>> You've double checked that the label is there?
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
>>> Hi Troy,
>>> Thaknks, but it is not quite working like you said. I have an ext3
>>> file system on the 3 partitions on this drive, and they are labelled
>>> (using tune2fs). When I tried the hotplug test, the system did NOT
>>> use my labels for the partitions. Instead it used usbdisk, usbdisk1
>>> usbdisk2.
>>> Eve
>>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:25:53 -0600
>>>> From: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: Eve V. E. Kovacs <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Cc: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: automount usb drives
>>>>
>>>> Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I have a USB drive that I would like to automount at boot and
>>>>> whenever it is hotplugged (is this possible?), at a fixed mountpoint.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current options in the fstab (added by the system when I plugged
>>>>> in the drive) are:
>>>>> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it just as simple as changing the noauto to auto??
>>>>>
>>>>> Another behavior I would like to change is that if I hot unplug
>>>>> the drive and then hotplug it, the system comments out
>>>>> my fstab entries and writes in new ones (as above) with the
>>>>> mountpoints
>>>>> at /media/usbdisk1, /media/usbdisk2 etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I keep the mountpoints that I defined? There is a 'hotplug'
>>>>> mount option in Suse linux, but I could not find documentation for
>>>>> it in SL (not conclusive since there is no documentation I could
>>>>> find for fscontext=system_u object_r removable_t either!)
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Eve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Eve,
>>>> The easiest way I can think of is to label the file system on your
>>>> USB drive filesystem, and remove all mention of it from your fstab.
>>>> That might sound a little bizzare, but here is the reason why.
>>>> You're USB drive is already being automounted when you plug it in,
>>>> you are seeing it yourself. It get's put into the fstab
>>>> automatically with hotplug. But, as you said, it is picking a new
>>>> directory for it to be mounted in each time.
>>>> The formula that hotplug is using to pick a directory name is
>>>> rather simple. It's first choice is /media/<FILESYTEM LABEL>
>>>> If a file system is not labeled, it then takes guesses, the most
>>>> common being usbdrive, so you get /media/usbdrive
>>>>
>>>> If your usbdrive patition has an ext2/ext3 partition, use e2label
>>>> to label it.
>>>>
>>>> Troy
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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