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Re: udev rule to name USB disks after their serial number
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Tim Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Tim Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:27:31 +0100
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On 05/03/10 15:16, Mark Stodola wrote:
>>   
> Tim,
> 
> I think you are confusing sysfs with environment variables.  the %E{key}
> is used for environment variables.  The serial number is a SYSFS
> attribute.  Try changing %E{serial} to %s{serial} and see if it works.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

That didn't work unfortunately, my rules file now looks like this:
KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", SYMLINK+="disknumber-%s{serial}"

Any other ideas?

Tim

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