B.K. Johnson wrote:
It may be due to work I am doing
Karl Godt asked:
What do you work on ?
Thanks for asking. I am experimenting with udev trying to make my flash drives have persistent names so I can avoid/overcome device names being changed when the usb connection is momentarily broken. See my earlier post here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79333.
which
nobody has commented on in 2 months since the post.
I tried mut probedisk2 using slacko and "NO NAME" showed for both mounted usb flash drives.
/dev/sda|usb|SanDisk Cruzer Edge 4.00GB NO NAME
/dev/sdb|usb|SanDisk SanDisk Cruzer 8.03GB NO NAME
/dev/sde|usb|WDC WD80 USB TO IDE 80GB 2 partitions
/dev/sr0|optical|SanDisk SanDisk Cruzer 100MB U3 System
In the absence of what, would there be the necessity for mut to assign "NO NAME"?
Pmount in slacko showed the correct sizes as yours do. What puppy are you running? I conclude that it is the implementation in lupu which is problematic.
I'll see what happens in lupu.
Is mut probedisk2 the best tool to use for partition/disk name? Or, is it that the mut engine (circa 2007) has not been updated to reflect udev changes? As said above, I am working with udev. Which tool would return the symlink name?
For example, my udev rule for the 8 GB San Disk Cruzer (sdf1 in my post screenshot) has SYMLINK+="usbdevices/Cr8".
Questions:
(1) What program would print the "Cr8"?
(2) Nothing in Puppy (except blkid and udevadm) shows "Cr8". How an I use this "persistent" name?