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How to apply udev rule to a non-partitioned local disk?
You should be matching on SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="xxx" (the brand/model AND serial number) anyway. Or ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT} (only the serial number). Or ENV{ID_WWN} (...
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Why to use udev rule to insure persistent naming/permission instead of mknod?
The biggest reason is that udev rule is "automatic" -- every time a new device is connected (or discovered during boot), udev will process all the rules files so you don't need to do ...
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Why to use udev rule to insure persistent naming/permission instead of mknod?
Why ? Reliability !
The major and minor device numbers are allocated when the driver detects a new device and, when a device is removed, these device numbers are freed and can be reused later.
The ...
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automount disks but with dev name, not some random numbers
The mounting and the mountpoint naming is done by UDisks and the name is chosen (in order of preference) as one of: filesystem label, filesystem UUID or disk + number as a fallback if both label and ...
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udev rule to run shell script when any hard drive is hotswapped
Nature of the problem
The problem you are running into is that udevd does not run in the root linux kernel namespaces by default in Ubuntu.
# ps -axe -o user,pid,ipcns,mntns,netns,pidns,userns,utsns,...
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Setting persistent name for usb serial device with udev rule without symlink
Ok so I think I solved the problem by following this post.
udev rules for USB serial 'by path' not working
I booted up the compute module with everything connected and the ports appeared as ...
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What is `/dev/sda0`? Is it a standard thing?
The short answer is no. The interface promises between kernel and userspace does not include the device numbers. it may be any numerical value and may even differ when you reboot to a newer kernel. ...
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What is `/dev/sda0`? Is it a standard thing?
It's not clear whether your question is Linux-specific, but in case not, a FreeBSD system would regard /dev/da0 as the first disk drive on the system, at least for SCSI (and USB) drives, and perhaps ...
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What is `/dev/sda0`? Is it a standard thing?
I've seen this, on a system without udev, one for which mknod would not second-guess you (I used a system for awhile where putting in the wrong major+minor was fixed by makenod somehow), and using the ...
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What is `/dev/sda0`? Is it a standard thing?
I’m not aware of /dev/sda0 ever being a standard device name, even on other Unix systems. And as far as I can tell, references to sda0 are likely mistakes rather than indications of a custom setup.
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udev rule for wacom tablet that has changing IDs
For future readers, this works.
xsetwacom --set "Wacom One by Wacom M Pen stylus" TabletPCButton on
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Finding the /dev/input/event* path of a device from its name
You want to set up a udev rule to provide your device with a persistent symlink. Start by running udevadm info -a /dev/input/eventXX for whichever device currently represents your gamepad.
You'll see ...
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