Re: missing drives and partitions

[Steve Holdoway]

Steve Holdoway wrote:
Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 18:13, Nick Rout wrote:
 

i suspect most distros have not fully implemented it yet.
even early adopters gentoo are still saying to compile devfs into the
kernel, and mount it at boot time :-)
  
Debian Unstable can run udev (apt-get install udev) with a 2.6 kernel. I
have been running it since I installed 2.6, and it works fine with my
little USB drive. If you run udev and GNOME then I recommend installing
the GNOME Volume Manager (apt-get install gnome-volume-manager), which
is one of the test-beds for the new udev/d-dbus/HAL system that will
(finally) give Linux sane removable device support.
 

I'll let you know how I get on, as I have a customer to 
test^H^H^H^Hsupport!

As for the last statement, I'm holding my breath like everyone else 
(^:  but I use no X stuff on production servers whenever possible.

Cheers,
Steve


Following on... didn't need much testing did it! I apt-got the udev 
package onto our office server, added in a line for my pen drive to 
/etc/udev/udev/rules that looked like this ( took the serial number from 
/proc/scsi/usb-storage/0 )

BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="021D83132E013272", NAME="usb/disgo"
rebooted, plugged the pen drive in while watching /var/log/syslog... it 
gets allocated /dev/usb/disgo

mount -t vfat /dev/usb/disgo /mnt and all is available.
Brilly!
Steve