Hello,
I linux guru friend of mine in England sent me to you folks because of the
battle I've been waging with my /dev symlinks. He attributes the problem to
the quirks of devfs. Here's the problem.
I have Mandrake 8.2 installed, and I have, among other devices, a 256Mb
internal IDE zip drive installed. When I had 8.2 installed without the
Upgrade CD, things were working fine. Since upgrading, I can no longer use
my zip drive with supermount. The reason is that something is wiping out my
symlink called "hdd4" in the /dev directory. Originally, I had a symlink
called hdd4@, a block device, that pointed to
"/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4". If I go to create the link, I have to
first eliminate the /hdd4 directory that is being created each time I boot.
I use this syntax: "ln -s /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 hdd4".
This successfully creates the link, and while I'm logged on, my zip functions
fine as it originally did, all the files are available.
When I reboot however, this symlink is wiped out, and replaced by that
/hdd4 directory again, and again my zip fails to function. This happens
every time. For now, seeing as I can't get around this issue unless you
folks can help me out, I created the hdd4@ symlink inside of the /hdd4
directory, and I had to change my fstab file to suit this new arrangement.
I can use the zip, but only if I manually mount and umount the drive. I
would like to fix this problem so that the supermount feature once again
works the way it's supposed to, and I won't have to mount the zip manually
again anymore.
Can someone help me out with this?
P.S. - My system uses devfsd.
Thanks,
Robert
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