Comments on: A udev rule for my USB stick (disk-on-key)

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:32:22 +0000

Probably the best article on doing this I have found. Very clear, concise and above all, helpful. Thank-you.

By: eli

eli — Tue, 05 May 2020 11:53:28 +0000

The emphasis on “maybe”: According to man udev:

“=”
Assign a value to a key. Keys that represent a list are reset and only this single value is assigned.

“:=”
Assign a value to a key finally; disallow any later changes.

By: Piero

Piero — Tue, 05 May 2020 11:49:08 +0000

Thanks, interesting post. Maybe instead of OWNER:= it should say OWNER=

By: eli

eli — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:39:28 +0000

That sounds like a good idea: Doing the raw writing to a device file with a distinct name, and then mount a classic device. Thanks.

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:26:14 +0000

“/dev/sdd doesn’t appear now, and neither do partition device files, so it’s a bit more difficult to mount the disk”

can’t you just add an additional rule for the partitions, with smth like
SUBSYSTEM==”block”, ATTR{partition}==”1″, ATTRS{serial}==”200610803009F0712206″, NAME=”usbstick_trials1″, SYMLINK+=”%k”