On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:41 -0600, J Taylor wrote:The easiest way is to label the filesystems and edit your /etc/fstab to
> I have multiple USB storages devices that are assigned to different /dev/sd*
> files. My problem is that a given device does not always have the same file
> name and I have to manually edit /etc/fstab to mount them. Is there a way
> around this?
use the labels instead of the device names. Find one of your devices
(assume it's at /dev/sda1):
# e2label /dev/sda1 bugaboo
Then put a line such as:
LABEL=/bugaboo /bugaboo ext3 noauto,user,rw 1 2
in /etc/fstab. That device should always mount at /bugaboo. Note
that the hotplug system will mount it at /media/bugaboo if you plug it
in later.
I did what's suggested with two partitions in my slave drive. But the partitions
won't mount. When I boot the system an error occurs halting the boot process:
"fcsk.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/stor1"
Here's my fstab.
$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/stor1 /stor1 ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/stor2 /stor2 ext3 defaults 1 2
The devices seems to be properly labeled
# e2label /dev/sdb1
stor1
# e2label /dev/sdb2
stor2
The OS install process labeled root as "/1", does that have anything to do
with the problem?
why does it not work as expected?
~af
