On November 10, 2006 12:56, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have an issue which will shortly be important to me, though > in past it has not been a problem. It appears to me that it > may be a general problem in some ways. > > I have for some time used an external USB hard drive. I find that > sometimes it must be mounted as /dev/sda1 and sometimes /dev/sde1, > and have consequently made two entries in my /etc/fstab, and just > live with what I have. This occurs even though the disc is always > plugged into the same USB port. > > I now have a USB FLASH drive, and so this is going to be more > of a problem, as I have different file systems on those, and > have a need to specify the mount NOT to be "auto" to ascertain > the fs type, since I am overriding the default for the FLASH > drive. In any case, the FLASH drive is also not always appearing > as the same device. I don't want to have to become root and > fiddle /etc/fstab every time I try to mount the FLASH drive. > > I've seen others here with what appears to be a similar problem > with running two ethernet ports, and not being able to know > which will be eth0. I wonder whether this be related. > > In any case, would some please give me advice on how to handle > the "floating" USB devices? > > Thanks very muchly for your time. > > Mike Hi Mike, You may want to read up here: http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Hope this helps, Phil
