Re: [SLUG] USB Serial port devices

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 18:27:19 EDT


> I'm surprised nobody has mentioned autofs
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/
>
> And here's a how-to for the faint-hearted:
>
> http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html
>
> Personally, I have autofs configured to identify the device by the
> name/description it sends to the computer (the name you can see with dmesg,
> like "USB Mass Storage"). It will automatically create a symlink to
> whatever the device is and call them, i.e., /dev/usb0, /dev/psp,
> /dev/camera, etc. Furthermore, I have it set to automatically mount said
> device every time I try to access whatever directory it is to be mounted on.
>
> It's a useful little tool so you don't have to deal with your usb devices
> being mapped to /dev/sdr or w/e.

It's cool, but an input device or a tty aren't storage devices...

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