On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:46:17PM -0800, Sandra Bonus wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question is an autofs question or perhaps for some other 
> software component.
> I have a couple of external USB hard drives with NTFS partitions each with 
> different volume names eg HDD1 and HDD2
> If I connect these one at a time they both come up as /dev/sde and I have an 
> autofs entry like 
> usb     -fstype=ntfs-3g :/dev/sde1
> 
> This mounts one drive as /misc/usb
> 
> This works fine except it would be ideal if each drive actually mounted as 
> /misc/HDD1 and /misc/HDD2 so that scripts can more easily differentiate the 
> disks
> 
> If I log in using Gnome then this seems to have no problem mounting each 
> drive and placing an icon on the desktop using the volume label. However, I 
> almost never use Gnome and the machine in question is a server. 
> 

This is an udev ruling task, you should differentiate by serial id, tags or 
what ever

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine

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