On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:25:32PM -0400, David Zakar wrote: > Quick, and hopefully easy, question: > > I have a Firewire hard drive, which, miraculously enough, actually seems > to work properly in Linux (Fedora Core 6). The file system is fat32 > (fdisk code "b"), which is OK, since this is meant as a temporary > storage drive, not as something high performance or reliable. > > I want to mount this disk up in the same place (/mnt/scratch-disk) every > time I boot, automatically. Since the location of the disk on the bus is > going to be changing soon (more firewire disks are coming!), I want to > just slap a device label on the partition and then use that as the > reference in fstab to mount it up. > > But, for the life of me, I have no idea how to change the device label. > Does anyone know how to do this? You can assume the partition in > question is /dev/sde1. :)
Didn't see an answer to this: e2label(8) and mount -L $LABEL I believe are the answers to your questions. > Bonus question: I'd like to do the same thing with my main storage, > which is a Firewire RAID (/dev/md0). The file system on that is ext3. > How should I approach that? The same thing as above should work afaik :-) Good luck, - Rob .
