I regret my misunderstanding - My assumption was - if you use "partition uuid" to mount the partition - you do not need to care about /dev/sd* because your drive is reliably mounted to the mount point.
Naturally - using partition uuid to mount something - implies that you remove any other possibly conflicting fstab entries. As about the drive disconnects/reconnects, besides fstab conflicts - the disk/enclosure power management could cause it too, along with number of other things already suspected. I know this is not what you asked for - If this constant hassle frustrates you enough to consider alternatives - perhaps using internal drive in a NAS enclosure or a low power PC could restore some peace and work productivity. -Tomas On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 08:10 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > In one of the weekend posts you learned how to obtain disk and partition > > uuid - is there any technical reason to not use uuid to mount your external > > drive? > > No. That's why I use it. > > > Uuids definitely do not change unless you change it intentionally. > > True, but the device assigned by the kernel does. > > > Someone, somewhere famously said - Those who cannot learn from history are > > doomed to repeat it. > > True. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
