which drive is it?

Scott talbotscott at cox.net
Wed Jun 1 21:09:52 UTC 2005


V Krish wrote:

>I have three external USB drives connected to an AMD
>machine running FC3. These are mounted as follows:
>/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb1
>/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb2
>/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/usb3 
>
>Is there some way to figure out which physical drive
>is mounted on /mnt/usb2 so I can pull that one out
>after a umount (short of disconnecting each in turn)? 
>
>Thank you,
>Krish
>  
>
    Check out the udev help files:  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/. 
Briefly, you can write a rule so that a particular drive is always 
mounted the same way
either by partition name or drive name (there are other options too, but 
I haven't needed them!)

Scott
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