Hi James.
Presumably you're using a recent enough version of Linux to be able to
mount by volume label rather than by partition name? If so, simply use
tune2fs to set a unique volume label for each partition on your USB hard
drive and mount using that.
To do this, replace the FIRST entry on the relevant fstab line with...
LABEL=/usb
...or whatever label you have given that partition. The remaining entries
are unchanged.
Best wishes from Riley.
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:05 AM
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> Subject: USB devices, mount points and fstab
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>
> Well, something I never thought would happen to me is happening: I have
> more than 1 USB drive hooked to my computer! That's because I
> just bought
> one of those 6 in 1 card readers for flash memory cards. Prior
> to that, I
> had only 1 external USB hard drive I would hook to the computer from time
> to time. It seems that I've got at least a major part of the issue of
> getting the computer (Libranet [Debian variant] with 2.4.19 kernel) to
> recognize the new drive out of the way: like with my other external hard
> drive, the flash disks get recognized as scsi drives. They can therefore
> be found at /dev/sdxx, and assigned mount points from there. But I am a
> little confused about how this relates to fstab. I put an entry there
> some time ago for my external HD, which I always mounted at /usb-hd as
> /dev/sda1. But now that I have this reader, it will not always be found
> at /dev/sda1. Thus, my question: beyond doing a fully manual
> mount (e.g.,
> mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/flash-cf) of each drive, how should this be
> done? Is
> there some simpler way of mounting these USB drives? I can't think of an
> fstab entry that would work. Advice on how to more easily mount my USB
> drives will be appreciated.
>
> James
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