My udev rules use a combination of KERNEL, ATTRS(serial), and SYMLINK to create named entries in /dev for my 2 USB hard drives.
With the following rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules: KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="FD...7264507", SYMLINK+="WD1" KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{serial}=="FD...7285643", SYMLINK+="WD2" Plugging them in results in /dev entries like: brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Aug 21 13:55 sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 21 13:55 WD1 -> sdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Aug 21 13:55 sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 21 13:55 WD2 -> sdd And in /etc/fstab, I reference /dev/WD1 and /dev/WD2 HTH, David On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:00:28 +0200 Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard > drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using > its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules > which are not currently working. I'm trying to use device serial > numbers to properly set its device name. One of the main reasons for > doing that is i have a RAID composed by 3 disk (let's say sda sdc sdd) > and when i plug another 4 disks sda becomes sde, sdc becomes sdg and > so on while new drives take old device names, that's why i would like > to make it sure device names remains always the same. > Here are the rules > Código: > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="VNVB05G2RKTRZH", NAME="hda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="9QK0T4WM", NAME="sda" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="3QD0X58D", NAME="sdb" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="9QK0RS9G", NAME="sdc" > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="9VP0SBVN", NAME="sdc" > > KERNEL=="hd*", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="VNVB05G2RKTRZH", > NAME="hda%n" KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEM=="block", > ATTR{serial}="9QK0T4WM", NAME="sda%n" KERNEL=="sd*", > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="3QD0X58D", NAME="sdb%n" > KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{serial}="9QK0RS9G", > NAME="sdc%n" KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEM=="block", > ATTR{serial}="9VP0SBVN", NAME="sdc%n" > > > Should this work? Do some one know how can i get it to work? thanks > in advanced