On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Gus Wirth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> I have two SATA hard drives, they are assigned names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
>> When USB removable devices are mounted, the system assigns them a
>> name, such as /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, and so on. These names seem not to
>> be recycled, even after a system reboot. So my system is currently up
>> to /dev/sdg and /dev/sdh.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to reset this name assignment? Some Google
>> browsing suggests unload and reload the usb-storage module. This
>> seems rather violent.
>
> You didn't say what distribution you are using. I don't have this
> problem with Fedora 8 or Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> Since the behavior is exhibited after a reboot, which I'm assuming means
> it picks up where it left off in the naming scheme, the problem is with
> the udev rules persistence mechanism. Check in /etc/udev/rules.d/ or
> wherever your system keeps its udev rules. Usually there is some rule
> with the word "persistent" in its name that will lead you to the cause.
System is CentOS 5.3
carl
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