On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 03:05:16PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > /mnt/sdd1 and /mnt/sdd2 would be incredibly easy to implement: I could > have it done within an hour. > > The only thing stopping me is that /mnt/sdd1 and /mnt/sdd2 say nothing > about which physical thumb drive it refers to. And at different times > under different conditions, the same physical thumb drive could > be /mnt/sdd once, and /mnt/sde another time.
"dmesg |tail"? > Naming after the id could > conceivably lessen such confusion. > > On the other > hand, /mnt/usb-LEXAR_JD_Secure_II_+_106A1D05221649250807-0:0-part1 > and /mnt/usb-LEXAR_JD_Secure_II_+_106A1D05221649250807-0:0-part1 would > be a lot more to type in, and if there were two similar Lexar thumb > drives plugged in at the same time, it would be more confusing than Personally, I'm already not inclined to type /media/sdd1 when referring to the drive in a command. I'd be inclined to type /mnt/usb-LEXAR_JD_Secure_II_+_106A1D05221649250807-0:0-part1 even less. If that was mounted under /media ... Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
