[lug] Persistent Naming in the 2.4 kernel

Stephen Queen svqueen at gmail.com
Tue May 17 08:59:12 MDT 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:06 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Stephen Queen wrote:
>> It is kernel 2.4.26. This was before udev, and I believe even before sysfs. I need to have
>> persistent naming of at least one USB thumb drive.
>
> I don't know that I used USB back then.  But I think you can still use fs labels to do mounts, if
> it's the mounting you care about.
>
> Dave
Yes it was that mounting that was important. A quick man on fstab
showed exactly how to do this.

Thanks,
Steve



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