I have two external USB drives hooked up to my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop. They are formatted NTFS, and generally they work - see fstab entries below.
However, sometimes (typically after a power outage, where the laptop stays on via battery but the drives power cycle), they mount in reverse order, and then paths to music do not exist since the two drives have different directory structures. That is, the 500gb drive should always mount as /dev/sdb1, which is /media/extdrive1, but sometimes it decides to mount as /dev/sdc1 (/media/extdrive2). If it mounts 'incorrectly', /media/extdrive1/flac does not exist. I am looking for a way to somehow force linux to mount the drives on the same device every time. There seems to be a way to do this for ext2/ext3 formatted drives (e2label) but I don't see any way for NTFS. Any thoughts? I need to leave these as NTFS formatted so switching them over to ext2/ext3 is not really an option. Thanks, Tom the pertinent lines from my fstab /dev/sdb1 /media/extdrive1 ntfs-3g auto,gid=1001,umask=000 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/extdrive2 ntfs-3g auto,gid=1001,umask=000 0 0 -- TomS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TomS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12525 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53161 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
