Robin Laing wrote:
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
I label all my devices when I format them. They then mount as
/media/{label name}.
Heck, I the same name comes up on Mac's as well. I would have to ask my
wife or daughter.
All my SD cards and USB sticks are named so I know which is which if I
have more than one plugged in at a time.
Great advice. I just put a label on a thumb drive using "e2label", went
into /media and removed all the usbdisk* directories, then reinserted
it. It automounted under /media with the label as its mount point.
Thanks for the good tip!
:m)
