How do I keep soft link /dev/dvd after reboot?

[Le grand pinguin]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:49:46PM -0800, Eric Potter wrote:
> O.K., now I understand that udev creates these device files dynamically.
> I did:
> 
> cd /dev
> ln -s hdc dvd
> 
> so that I can use mplayer without specifying -dvd-device each time.
> udev erases this after each reboot.  How do I have a persistent soft
> link from hdc to dvd?

Well, udev _should_ take care of that ... 
Have a look at '/etc/udev/udev.rules', there should be an entry like:

 # cdrom/cdrw links
 BUS="ide" KERNEL="hdc", SYMLINK="cdrom cdrecorder"

you might want to change this to: 

 # cdrom/cdrw links
 BUS="ide" KERNEL="hdc", SYMLINK="cdrom dvd cdrecorder"

that should do it (the rule basically tells udev to create
symlinks for the three device files whenever the kernel 
reports hdc.

 HTH Ralf Mattes

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