Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Ben Koenig wrote: We also have a standard udev.d setup in lib/udev/rules.d/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/. The only difference is that we use eudev rather than the systemd nonsense. Ben, Thank you. I thought I had looked in /lib, but obviously I didn't. Mea culpa! Rich, the files in /dev/disk/by-path are all symlinks, use ls -l to view them. They should link to the normal drive names, however by-path names don't change per device, they change per port. So all USB drives plugged into a given port will use the same name in by-path, even if the drive letter changes. Ah, so. I saw they were symlinks but didn't follow them to their hard links. This topic is not an issue on a desktop that's infrequently rebooted or laptop that has only one drive. I'm developing this desktop to boot into either Slackware64-14.2 or -15.0, I think that whether the USB port is /dev/sdg or /dev/sdh upon rebooting depends on whether it's raining. Your Slackware lessons are always valuable and appreciated. Best regards, Rich
Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Russell Senior wrote: I don't know anything about Slackware, but ... https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest if you run: $ mount | grep '/run ' you are going to see /run is a tmpfs. Then I'll find where to put udev rules so they remain. Thanks, Russell, Rich
Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Do you have a /lib/udev/rules.d subdir? Nope. On Slackware rules are in /run/udev/rules.d. Rich
Re: [PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, MC_Sequoia wrote: "I will leave aside the fact that no one submits an executable file to Linux; each distribution (Red Hat, Debian, etc) picks the executable files to include with the Linux kernel." Ah,so executable files are only developed and maintained by the Linux kernel team? Please re-read the paragraph you quoted. In particular, note the subject of the verb "picks." If I were to write an app, ROFL!, but for the sake of discussion, I'd rely on already established executable files that are hopefully documented enough for me to hook into? And not every executable is worthy of its own manual page? And the Linux kernel team makes the decision on how exes are documented or if documented? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
Re: [PLUG] Assigning labels to USB pen drives
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Johnathan Mantey wrote: People who are very skilled at making udev rules have done so in my Fedora, and I assume *other* Linux distros, in the */lib/udev/rules.d* subdirectory. I expect the */run/udev* subdirectory to be empty because it is not a persistent file-system. I have /etc/udev/rules.d/ with one entry from 2018. /run/udev/ is more current. When the kernel keeps the same device name for portable USB drives they're loaded because that mount point is in fstab. I'm not certain what you mean by "*Generic for any portable USB drive*". You *want* each drive to have some unique label. If you don't then you will most likely get some kind of access collision that isn't going to end well. What I mean is that my thumb drives come from different vendors. Thanks, Rich
