harddrive in %pre

Bryan J Smith bjs at redhat.com
Fri Aug 27 16:56:06 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 11:50 -0400, Dan Davis wrote:
> What we do is set a label with mkfs.vfat and change the syslinux.cfg
> on the USB to make reference to the USB label.
> In %pre and %post scripts, you can use udevadm info on the devices and
> figure out which is USB, but that only works if your "real" hard disks
> are not USB.

But one can capture unique IDs of the USB device.  It would require a
slight, extra-effort on each USB device, but it would be worth it.


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