From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 10 23:19:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471D7106566B for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:19:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505c.appriver.com [98.129.35.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102FF8FC0C for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:19:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.15 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht02.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 112 113 114 115 119 120 131 217 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.15] (HELO ht02.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 16246692 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:45 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.164]) by ht02.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.15]) with mapi; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:41 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600 Thread-Topic: Renaming USB device Thread-Index: AcpiXEZ7NKePfY4GTKSOCErweBOzmA== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3394F75F@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Renaming USB device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:19:42 -0000 When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/d= a0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or = if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is for the = USB drive. For our purposes, we'd like to separate the USB drive from the m= ain hard drives as far as the drive prefix is concerned, for example someth= ing like /dev/usb0 would be ideal. I realize this is something that likely = has to be done in the form of a kernel patch, but the question is can it be= easily done?