USB storage devices and /etc/fstab
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Fri Dec 14 01:38:24 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:41 -0600, J Taylor wrote:
> I have multiple USB storages devices that are assigned to different /dev/sd*
> files. My problem is that a given device does not always have the same file
> name and I have to manually edit /etc/fstab to mount them. Is there a way
> around this?
The easiest way is to label the filesystems and edit your /etc/fstab to
use the labels instead of the device names. Find one of your devices
(assume it's at /dev/sda1):
# e2label /dev/sda1 bugaboo
Then put a line such as:
LABEL=/bugaboo /bugaboo ext3 noauto,user,rw 1 2
in /etc/fstab. That device should always mount at /bugaboo. Note
that the hotplug system will mount it at /media/bugaboo if you plug it
in later.
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