Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:18:47 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: "bsalinux@gmail.com" <bsalinux@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixating USB Storage Message-ID: <20120203231847.5279be28@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <CAB3Sx6eGEe1qkEfYdq4JWVNHzb35wouNq6EHQ45hPPUpSdEAwA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAB3Sx6evad7VOWoK3AHF6DW0y0k6ZgpBwPUMSu7Ag8-dQqSJTw@mail.gmail.com> <CAB3Sx6eGEe1qkEfYdq4JWVNHzb35wouNq6EHQ45hPPUpSdEAwA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:41:39 -0800 "bsalinux@gmail.com" <bsalinux@gmail.com> wrote: > Please ignore, I forgot that I asked this before. Thanks. > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:38 PM, bsalinux@gmail.com > <bsalinux@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How can I fix a USB storage device to always have the same device > > name such as da9 irrespective of other da? devices present. > > > > Here is the device > > # usbconfig -u 4 -a 2 dump_info > > ugen4.2: <USB Flash Drive USB 2.0> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH > > (480Mbps) pwr=ON > > > > Thanks I don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it to you in response to this question, but I just very recently switched over to using volume labels to mount my partitions instead of device names. I was having an ongoing issue where this external USB drive's device number assignment would change from one boot to the next, toggling back and forth between da0 and da4 (strange!). Then just the other night, something led me to one of Warren Block's web pages describing how to easily label a volume and use that instead in /etc/fstab, so shifting device assignments no longer matter. How lovely! :-) Here it is, "FreeBSD Labeled Filesystems", by Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html A regular little gem of knowledge that was to discover. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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