Sorry, the right name is hwtools, by Siggy Brentrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I found it at frozen/binary-i386/utils/hwtools_0.2-5.deb.
I believe that, at least for scsi, it is capable of creating a node, or else a symbolic link, on the fly so that a specific drive will always be mounted in the same place. I recall that the drive reference is somewhat flexible and can refer to the serial number. Dave Cinege wrote: > > On Fri, 02 May 1997 22:35:41 -0500, Brian N. Borg wrote: > > >Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe > >the developer has done something very similar. > > Where can I get this??? Couldn't find it in rex, bo, or hamm..... > > >--Brian > > > >Dave Cinege wrote: > >> > >> I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. > >> What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? > >> (actually maybe just lilo) > >> > >> Problem: partition and drive shift > >> Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days > >> > >> How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates > >> entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct > >> major/minor. > >> > >> Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that > >> drive > >> on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with > >> out reconfiguring. This sucks. > >> > >> Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux > >> partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the > >> partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a > >> /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor. > >> > >> If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's > >> physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc. > >> > >> Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe > >> others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the > >> partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you > >> don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named > >> correctly. > >> > >> I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do. > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ > >> > >> -- > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > >> Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .