On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at 3:49:12 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:

> And because sometimes the drive that I insert will be perfectly blank (a
> new drive), I can't use something like a drive label: it might not have
> one!

Don't you have to partition and format the new drive before it can be used?
If you do, you could write a "standard" disk label to it at that time, and
then use that standard label in the udev rule or even to mount the drive if
your version of fstab allows drives to be specified by label.

-- 
Jim Kyle
mailto: jim AT jimkyle DOT com


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