Hi, I have a situation that, before, kind of bugged me but I was able to deal with it. However, now I've added another wrinkle to the situation.
I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 because I've configured it to have two ext3 partitions. If the drive is not powered on when I boot and then, I turn it on, I have to reboot to get fstab to recognize it. That has always sort of irked me, but I dealt with it because the drive holds only my music files. The wrinkle is that my son bought me a usbstick. I can mount it just fine. However, if my usb external hard drive is not powered on on boot, the stick is recognized at sdc1. If the usb drive is powered on then, the stick is recognized as sdd1. So, this means that if I want to use one or the other or both, I keep having to change fstab. Is there a way I can set the device to always be the same - i.e. I always want the usb external drive to be sdc1 and sdc2 and the usb stick to be sdd1. I know! I only want the world. If there isn't a way that this can be done, then I'll live with the situation. It's not earth shattering! Thanks in advance. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
