On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:24:44 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have created a udev rule for an MP3 player, following this article > in the ubuntu forum: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168221 > > I have the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with this line: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{vendor}=="Samsung", ATTRS{model}=="YP-U2", > NAME="samsumg-yp-u2" > > and all goes well on plugging in the device, it consistently appears in > konqueror under system:/media/samsumg-yp-u2. > > I'm not clear about how to now create a mount point such that I could > always access this device from some folder, I understood that I could > add a line like this to fstab: > > /dev/samsung-yp-u2 /media/samsung vfat defaults 0 0 > > having first created /media/samsung. > > however I get this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /media/samsung > mount: special device /dev/samsung-yp-u2 does not exist > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/sam* > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 2008-08-22 19:35 /dev/samsumg-yp-u2 > > Can anyone indicate where I might be going wrong? > > Cheers, > Roger > > > This article is a couple of years old, and udev has matured sonce then. udev has already mounted the device at /media/samsung-yp-u2, as you can see from your browser. You need do nothing more! hth, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
