Accessing DASD by udev-created device nodes

The following example is based on these assumptions:

• A DASD with bus ID 0.0.b100 has two partitions.
• The standard device node of the DASD is dasdzzz.
• udev creates the following device nodes for a DASD and its partitions:

  /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100
  /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100-part1
  /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100-part2

Instead of issuing:

# fdasd /dev/dasdzzz

issue:

# fdasd /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100

In the file system information in /etc/fstab replace the following specifications:

/dev/dasdzzz1 /temp1 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/dasdzzz2 /temp2 ext3 defaults 0 0

with these specifications:

/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100-part1 /temp1 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.b100-part2 /temp2 ext3 defaults 0 0