Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:18:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lock down device name for USB drive Message-ID: <20050701221803.GO2392@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <56241.209.103.198.74.1120249277.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <56241.209.103.198.74.1120249277.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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In the last episode (Jul 01), Doug Poland said: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use the automounter to mount a USB thumbdrive on > -STABLE. The only problem I'm having is that, between reboots, the > name of the device changes between da0s1 and da1s1. > > Is there a way to lock down the device name so it doesn't change? Depends on what you want to lock down. If you only want a particular thumbdrive to be mounted, you can give it a label and use geom_label to provide a /dev/msdosfs/mylabel node. If you always want the first usb drive plugged in to be mounted, you can wire down umass and the device to always appear at the same scbus# and da# numbers, by adding something like this to loader.conf: hint.scbus.0.at="umass0" hint.da.0.at="scbus0" hint.da.0.target="0" hint.da.0.unit="0" If you boot off of scsi devices, you probably would want to wire them down first, followed by your usb device, to keep them from shifting if you have more than one usb drive plugged in during bootup. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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