USB storage devices and /etc/fstab

[John Summerfield]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.

Dunno about you chaps, but mine are mostly FAT filesystems, and they're 
staying that way for maximum portability.

What then?


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