From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq42b-0001TT-Aw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:04:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 975AEE0B7D for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D232E08EA for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk33 with SMTP id 33so5106742qyk.19 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xsE3Uat3hYfSXbvtgsOaBMDeD01GmcN1lr3jbXDTRTc=; b=wVVAVar0ESfY+WuVV+xzbhzphg7lCl5j01vtkaYK4XOp5+S+Xv/Etb/8ILpMr4PBoN Ex6lzrZ9zY2RHjTn4P5fBJM+tBYQG1RnLmZ4l+ZRKoJw/Gn/EdvklraqMyNNlitqSBJN pung+pFjq8a3HbdTjgCOwRW/+Rq8P/LUXk/8Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=AWuux0ptpfxUalAGq3HE0U5jatQzTIEgLtLf+t67AhtkpQ39Ya4iFUBP7SRok+9B35 rW4fvW7KvOYS0Eu5MyhvvhxB2evx7uitmuZYWRJ+PoeWIhFC017iQQBgvBmbX274o6sb kQ/tMerSBXmxrlIdtYqYzF7O/3bnV2wRMluJg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.71.70 with SMTP id g6mr2976745qcj.179.1283173228330; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.96.135 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:00:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev From: Pau Peris To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: edfc6914-ed4b-4a7e-a91d-dce57d8742eb X-Archives-Hash: 442af32332f5770216f3eac09cb4fb61 Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules which are not currently working. I'm trying to use device serial numbers to properly set its device name. One of the main reasons for doing that is i have a RAID composed by 3 disk (let's say sda sdc sdd) and when i plug another 4 disks sda becomes sde, sdc becomes sdg and so on while new drives take old device names, that's why i would like to make it sure device names remains always the same. Here are the rules C=F3digo: SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"VNVB05G2RKTRZH", NAME=3D"hda" SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9QK0T4WM", NAME=3D"sda" SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"3QD0X58D", NAME=3D"sdb" SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9QK0RS9G", NAME=3D"sdc" SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9VP0SBVN", NAME=3D"sdc" KERNEL=3D=3D"hd*", SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"VNVB05G2RKTRZH",= NAME=3D"hda%n" KERNEL=3D=3D"sd*", SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9QK0T4WM", NAME= =3D"sda%n" KERNEL=3D=3D"sd*", SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"3QD0X58D", NAME= =3D"sdb%n" KERNEL=3D=3D"sd*", SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9QK0RS9G", NAME= =3D"sdc%n" KERNEL=3D=3D"sd*", SUBSYSTEM=3D=3D"block", ATTR{serial}=3D"9VP0SBVN", NAME= =3D"sdc%n" Should this work? Do some one know how can i get it to work? thanks in adva= nced