Nailing Down a /dev point 2006-01-15 - By Elam Daly
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Greg,
Are you saying that in my script I run this command each time? And then
simply mount <label>
The man page doesn't say if the label change is permanent or not.
Thanks,
-Elam
On 1/15/06, Greg Hosler <greg@(protected)> wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> | Greg Hosler greg@(protected) |
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Greg,<br><br>Are you saying that in my script I run this command each time?
And then simply mount <label><br>The man page doesn't say if the
label change is permanent or not.<br><br>Thanks,<br>-Elam<br><br><div><span
class="gmail_quote">
On 1/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Hosler</b> <<a href="mailto
:greg@(protected)">greg@(protected)</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=
"gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt
0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
set a device label, and then it will ALWAYS mount to the SAME mount point,<br
>regardless as to whether it is detected as sda, sdb, sdc, or whatever.<br><br>
e2label /dev/sda1 <your label
><br><br>The label can be up to 16 characters.
<br><br>man e2label<br><br>best rgds,<br><br>-Greg Hosler<br><br>On 15-Jan-2006 (See http://Jan-2006.ora-code.com)
Elam Daly wrote:<br>> Howdy all,<br>><br>> We have the USB 2.0 Iomega
hard drives we use for a nightly backup scheme.<br>><br>> They work great
except for the fact that each time you plug one of them in,
<br>> the potential mount point changes. So if I plug in drive a on Monday,
the<br>> dev point is /dev/sda1, or it could be /dev/sdc1 etc. It's never<br
>> consistent. I've hacked a script that uses the fdisk command
and greps for
<br>> the appropriate drive and then mounts it, but I'd rather not do this.
<br>><br>><br>> Is there a way to tell ES that I want every single usb
hard drive to use the<br>> same mount point, preferably /dev/sda1?
<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> -Elam<br><br>+-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----+<br><br>Please also check the log file at
"/dev/null" for additional information.<br>
(from
/var/log/Xorg.setup.log)
<br><br>| Greg Hosler
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