On Sun 26 Dec 2021 at 21:32:20 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Any ideas about why udev assigns a symlink on the desktop system and > not on the Sharp Mebius laptop?
Because the slots you're pushing them into are of a different type. > Desktop machine. > Pertinent lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. > # The green Nexttech SDHC card. > KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="7434240", SYMLINK+="GRNSD", \ > OWNER="peter", GROUP="users" And you will find your partition named something like /dev/sdb1. > peter@joule:/home/peter$ ls /dev/G* > /dev/GRNSD > > Laptop machine. > Pertinent lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. > # The green Nexttech SDHC card. > KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="7434240", SYMLINK+="GRNSD", \ > OWNER="peter", GROUP="users" Here, you'll probably find your partition named something like /dev/mmcblk0p1, which does not match "sd?1". > peter@mebius:/home/peter$ ls /dev/G* > ls cannot access 'dev/G*': No such file or directory See also my post about SD cards' IDs in the two cases: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/01/msg00038.html Cheers, David.