Howto make permanent USB mount points with "udev"

[jafadmin]

So where do I find the correct documentation for udev?

"man udev?"

https://linux.die.net/man/8/udev

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[3guesses]

So where do I find the correct documentation for udev?

"man udev?"

https://linux.die.net/man/8/udev

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Which is exactly what I did. Which took me to documentation that is completely inconsistent with the rules files generated by this wizard and processed by Puppy's udev. (I believe somebody previously wrote: "Consider that the documentation doesn't match udev".)

So I ask again, where do I find the correct documentation for [Puppy's] udev?

I would also still like to know how to set up automatic mounts on Puppy using UUID as the matching criteria - can that be done with udev or possibly fstab? Because this wizard (a) does not work correctly for my USB stick, and (b) mounts ALL the partitions on a device rather just the one(s) wanted.

[jafadmin]

1) The ".rules" file is created by "udevadm", not "udev". The following command displays the udev info about your device:

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udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/<Your USB device>)

2) The rules file looked ok. Try manually executing the "mnt-CnM" script in /root/udev while the thumbdrive is plugged in and see if it mounts it. If it fails, check that there is a CmN-1 device listed in /dev when the thumbdrive is plugged in. (ls /dev/CmN*)
3) The event chain goes: PnP device gets plugged in-> udev looks for a rule that matches device->upon matching, udev creates the device descriptor in /dev, and executes any commands in the associated "rules" file.->The "rules" file calls the matching script in /root/udev that handles mounting the partitions.

So somewhere in that chain there is a disconnect. we need to find it.

Finally) Neither udev nor this wizard have anything to do with mounting partitions by UUID. Udev deals with PnP hardware, and the UUID of a partition is a software/transient property.