Simple instructions for renaming drives

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:39:59AM +0000, Paul wrote:
> 
> Or on my machine, hdg and hdh became dde and ddf which caught me out!

Names like "dde" do not look right.  It appears that you misread
something.  In a sense it should not matter.

> For some reason, my fstab doesn't have any entries for my DVDRW,
> DVD/CDRW and DVD (formerly hdc, hdd, hdf - zip drive was hde4)

For a long while now removable media are handled by user space
applications, like 'gnome-mount', communicating with dbus (unless
something happens to be broken at the given moment:-) and fstab
entry would roughly mean "don't do that; I am going to use something
else, say 'autofs')".  'udev' is supposed to create /dev/cdrom and
similar links pointing to right devices so hopefuly you should not
worry about this at all.

   Michal