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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:04:14 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Stable device names for USB disks?
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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