Request for comments: Is this how to create named links for USB volumes/partitions?

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:27:50AM +0200, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote:
> Since the sequence of inserting a USB disk/key determines what device 
> designation it gets (e.g. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb), I wanted to create 
> links to these dynamic device names for the contained volumes, so they 
> get predeterimined names, and I can reference them symbolically 
> regardless of what sequence they happened to be inserted in today.
> 
> Is this the easiest way? Is there a better/easier one?

This is long solved by udev and the persistent device naming for disks.
On recent distros you find /dev/disk/by-id,by-label,by-uuid,by-path
maintained by udev.

Kay