Hi i have an external hard disk, which connects (and is powered) via usb the following is the relevant df -hT output /dev/sdb1 ext3 92G 53G 35G 60% /media/disk /dev/sdb2 vfat 56G 1.3G 55G 3% /media/disk-1
the problem is if it hot mount the external disk the vfat drive becomes disk and the ext3 disk becomes disk-1 and if i connect the USB disk before boot up the situation is as above. One of the problems is that i have some lines in my sources.conf which point to the ext3 partition /media/disk/Ubuntu/gibbon and it does not help that the mount point keeps changing. So one option i thought of was to rename one of the partitions (giving it a label), thus fixing how its identified, but learnt that this is a typical Wincedoze solution http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=561047 so there seems to be a couple of solutions 1. to fix the mount point in fstab but would this mean every time the device is not mounted will get an error- and do i just copy the relevant mtab section to fstab - would that work. 2. make a label for the vfat partition (under windows) 3. make a label for the ext3 partition tried using gparted but one it does not have an option and two it seems like it would reformat the disk if i tried anything is there a method to rename / label either of the paritions (vfat or ext3)without affecting the data inside currently the USB disk gets automounted under /etc/mtab as follows /dev/sdb1 /media/disk ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /media/disk-1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 i have tried using gnome partition editor, QTparted neither seem to give me the requisite tools / options. Any suggestions thanks ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
