08-05-2008
Mounting a USB device with a persistent name
When I attach a USB storage device to my Solaris server, the mount point is coming up as /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk
Is there anyway I can have this device come up as a mounted device with a predetermined mount name eg /morespace rather than unnamed_rmdisk ?
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hvmount
HVMOUNT(1) General Commands Manual HVMOUNT(1)
NAME
hvmount - Mount or umount device through HAL
SYNOPSIS
hvmount COMMAND ARGS [options]
hvumount [options] <-c | -r> <-a | mountpoint | device | udi>
DESCRIPTION
hvmount Umount the mountpoint, device, or udi given on the command line, or all mounted devices. Alternatively (and additionaly), device,
udi and mountpoint may be given using options -p, -d or -u.
COMMANDS
mount device udi mount device which has udi.
register mountpoint udi
register mountpoint for udi.
umount unmount device, mountpoint or udi.
list list mounted and registered devices.
umountpoint udi
unregister mountpoint for udi.
remove udi
remove completly udi.
clean remove database.
OPTIONS
-d device
-p mountpoint
-u udi
-a When listing, list all the existing devices. For the other operations, perform the operation on all the handled devices.
hvumount Options
-l label set label (for pmount)
-m umask
--s if set, mount sync
SEE ALSO
halevt(1), halevt-mount(1)
7th Edition HVMOUNT(1)