Re: Missing dev entries

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:13:38 -0400

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:10:42 -0400, Madhusudan Singh
  <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
> Bill Marcum wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:31:14 -0400, Madhusudan Singh
>> <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I recently compiled a kernel (2.6.13.1) and found today that I no longer
>>> had entries for /dev/sda*, the devices that I use to mount USB storage
>>> filesystems (such USB sticks etc.). What option might I have missed
>>> compiling into the kernel ?
>>>
>> Does your system use udev? It may be that the /dev/sd* entries are
>> created when you plug in a USB storage device.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I use udev. How do I check which /dev entry is created when I plug a
> thumbstick into the USB port ?
>
tail -f /var/log/syslog

> I can view the device in usbview, which means that an interface is being
> created, only that I do not know what its name is. In such a situation, how
> does one make an entry in /etc/fstab ?

Look at /etc/udev/udev.rules 

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