USB Flash stick

[Andy Green]

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On Monday 17 May 2004 15:27, Robin Laing wrote:

> I have found that the usb stick isn't always recognized as /dev/sda1
> but sometimes /dev/sdb1.  I found this by tailing the messages log

One way this can happen is if you forgot to umount it.  Automount (aka autofs) 
is a cool service that monitors the mountpoint (ie, /mnt/flash or whatever) 
and dynamically mounts the associated device on access.  Then a configurable 
period after the last access, eg, 2 seconds, it automatically and cleanly 
unmounts the device.  usbautomount (see the URL in my sig) uses this to make 
USB devices accesses a lot simpler.

> I find that plugging the camera into the computer changes things as
> well.  USB needs more work from my point of view.

There is a devlabel service as well that can make available /dev/sdn at a 
fixed alias depending on what it is, but I didn't look into it yet.

- -Andy

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