Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:04:14 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable device names for USB disks? Message-ID: <20050303000414.GF77052@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <42264DC5.6030409@cloudview.com> References: <42264DC5.6030409@cloudview.com>
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In the last episode (Mar 02), John Pettitt said: > > I seem to recall there was a neat trick involving GEOM to allow USB > disks to be mounted in the same place every time the system boots but I > can't find it. Right now my system (5.3 RELEASE) seems to being a > random da? device for each drive that changes with every reboot - > clearly not a good situation. > > Does anybody have a fix for this? Two options: - Wire your devices down (man scsi) so that your usb controller is always, say, scbus1, and target 0 off scbus1 is da1. You may also have to wire down your boot controller and disk. - Use geom_label, label your FAT32 or ufs filesystems, and always mount /dev/msdosfs/blah or /dev/ufs/blah -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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