Nailing Down a /dev point 2006-01-15 - By Greg Hosler
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set a device label, and then it will ALWAYS mount to the SAME mount point,
regardless as to whether it is detected as sda, sdb, sdc, or whatever.
e2label /dev/sda1 <your label>
The label can be up to 16 characters.
man e2label
best rgds,
-Greg Hosler
On 15-Jan-2006 (See http://Jan-2006.ora-code.com) Elam Daly wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> We have the USB 2.0 Iomega hard drives we use for a nightly backup scheme.
>
> They work great except for the fact that each time you plug one of them in,
> the potential mount point changes. So if I plug in drive a on Monday, the
> dev point is /dev/sda1, or it could be /dev/sdc1 etc. It's never
> consistent. I've hacked a script that uses the fdisk command and greps for
> the appropriate drive and then mounts it, but I'd rather not do this.
>
>
> Is there a way to tell ES that I want every single usb hard drive to use the
> same mount point, preferably /dev/sda1?
>
> Thanks,
> -Elam
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Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
(from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log)
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