path_id(8)

path_id8

Udev callout to create a device path based unique name for a device to implement the linux persistent device naming scheme

Usage

path_id <devpath>

Overview

path_id is normally called from a udev rule, to create a unique name, based on the device properties along the chain of parent devices. Udev uses this information to create a persistent symlink to the real device node.

Authors

Developed by Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>.

From udev 0.125-7+lenny3 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.