Western Digital external HD stange name

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Mon Aug 24 21:57:18 UTC 2009


Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I plug my external HDD (Western Digial Passport)[1], it is mounted as:
> ls /media/629a69fb-898e-4965-ba06-0294d7e24c94/
> instead of /media/disk.
> 
> It is mounted as /dev/sdb1[2], so if I umount /media/62... and:
> mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk,
> it works
> 
> Why is mounting with such strange name? How to make it mount as
> /media/disk?

It has a uuid on the partition.  You can remove the uuid via

	tune2fs -U clear /dev/sdb1

and it should mount as /media/disk next time.  I suggest you give it a
label such as

	e2label /dev/sdb1 somedescriptivelabel

and next time it should mount as /media/somedescriptivelabel.  Keeps
things a bit more clear.  My ISO files are on a USB drive, so I have
the filesystem labeled as "CD-DVD-Images":

[root at prophead ~]# e2label /dev/sdc1
CD-DVD-Images
[root at prophead ~] mount
...
/dev/sdc1 on /media/CD-DVD-Images type ext3
				(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
...

> Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: Product: External HDD
> Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Western Digital
> Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 
> 575845323037413031343333
> Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
> choice
> Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
> Storage devices
> Aug 24 21:45:52 xps1530 kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD 
>  800BEVSExternal  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> 
> [2]
> Aug 24 21:45:53 xps1530 kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
> 


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