That's what I get for answering a tech question before 7:00am!!! On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10-09-23 06:36 AM, : robert-william : lewko wrote: >> That name (3012-E8F4) is taken from the volume label. If you reformat >> the drive with the previous label you should be back in business. >> > Actually that name is generated from the UUID when there is no label. > You can change the label to something more friendly. How you do this > depends on the file system. FAT32 file systems can be a little tricky > to do under Linux (it is doable just not intuitive). > > You can also have a specific device mount to a specific place by using > the UUID. For example, in my /etc/fstab > > UUID=b0ad2056-d4db-48d1-8195-1247d1e5ad9e /opt/scratch xfs defaults 0 0 > > This UUID belongs to a USB drive and whenever it is connected it will > mount to that specific mount point. You can get the UUID from > /dev/disk/by-uuid which are sym links to the actual device (eg. /dev/sdc1). > > What file system is this drive? > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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