hotplugging USB disk on key: incorrect fstab entry

[shmuel siegel]

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 16:56, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Sunday 02 May 2004 11:52 pm, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> i would bugzilla it  but the problem is that some use /dev/sda and 
> others /dev/sda1  i think the newer and the biggerones tend to use /dev/sda  
> though im not sure if that is entirely accurate.  i have three different USB 
> disk keys and all use /dev/sda1  though i usually just put the entry 
> is /etc/fstab  and leave it be
> 
> Dennis
> 

In my case it is more complicated. Out of the box it was using sda and
using the whole disk. After I formatted it, it required sda1 and sda2.
So either way would have caused me problems at some point in time.