Sunday, 22 January 2017

Mount USB disk to server

I want to add some USB disks to my server (CentOS7) but need them to always be the same device.

Use udev to identify the disks:



udevadm info --attribute-walk --path /sys/class/block/sdd | grep model
    ATTRS{model}=="Backup+  Desk   "

Add lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/custom

SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{model}=="Backup+ Desk ", SYMLINK+="Seagate%n"


udevadm control --reload-rules
udevadm trigger

This should add some symlinks in /dev