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See also:
* [Red Hat Magazine - Configuring Devices with udev | http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/]
* [Writing udev rules|http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php]
+* [Gentoo Customizing udev HOWTO|http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV]
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+!!Notes
+(WikiGnome~s split out to another page if you feel the need)
!! Troubleshooting
__Q:__ Why doesn't the [HAL] and [UDev] combination pick up my device events (ie plugging in a KeyDrive) in DebianLinux?
<br> __A:__ You have to add the user to the "plugdev" group, else it won't work.
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+!! Force a USB storage device to a specific mount point
+
+DanielLawson writes on the [NZLUG] list:
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+There are a couple of ways of doing this.
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+If your distribution uses udev, you can make a udev rule to create a /dev entry for a specific device, based on some criteria. I've used the USB serial #, for example, to map my USB harddisk to /dev/external and my USB flash disk to /dev/memorystick. You can then use normal fstab rules for these mounts.
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+Another option, which works with most FileSystem~s (not [NTFS] it seems), is to get the UUID of the filesystem, and use that as an fstab(5) rule. If you run the blkid program as root it will list all filesystems present
+on your system, and their UUIDs if they are available. You can then add a rule to fstab that looks like:
+
+=UUID=42CB-5356 /media/external vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0=
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+blkid is provided by the libblkid1 package under [Ubuntu] (and [Debian] Sarge, I believe).
+
+These approaches should all integrate reasonably well with the standard automounting facilities available in modern distributions.
