#in gentoo customly named USB disk regardless if it is sda sdb sdc ... #add a file /etc/udev/rules.d/01-udev-custom.rules #containing BUS=="scsi", KERNEL="sd*", SYSFS{model}=="L080L0", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="usbdisk%n", RUN+="/bin/mount /disk2/ftp/USB" #interesting command udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sda #for more info use writing udev rules