Robert Paxton wrote:
I am currently upgrading from FC1 to FC3. I have ten external USB hard
drives attached. I need to be sure that when these drives are attached
that they can be uniquely identified so that they get mounted to the
same mount points each time. I was using devlabel in FC1 to accomplish
this, but FC3 no longer has devlabel. I tried udev but there is
nothing provided by udevinfo that will uniquely identify the drives.
Does any know of a way in FC3 that I can do what devlabel did for me
in FC1?
In FC4 using USB hard drives, I use e2label and give the drives unique
labels. The drives are then mounted according to the labels with ICONs
on the desktop. However, they are mounted unpredictably under media.
Anyway, my idea is to use e2label on the drives, then use the label to
specify a mountpoint for each drive.
Using my /etc/fstab as an example, you could use LABEL=/usb-dsk1 vs.
using /dev/sda1 etc which could change unpredictably. If the drives are
usually always attached, you should be fine. For USB drives, you have to
set the last two numbers to 0 0 or you woud be dropped to a maintenence
shell. don't use numbers.
/dev/sda1 is labeled as /usb-boot so I would use
LABEL=/usb-boot /mnt/usb-boot ext3 defaults 0 0
if predictable mountpoints were needed. Labels on the ICONs are good
enough for me.
Better ways may be available.
Jim
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