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rebootl

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Registered: 2012-01-10

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[SOLVED] Trouble mounting external harddrive

Hello

I use my old ipod as an external hard drive connected via usb.

I want to be able to mount it in the console easily, as regular user, so I added this line:

/dev/sdb2       /home/cem/MOUNT-IPOD auto noauto,user 0 0

to my /etc/fstab. This is exactly what I want and it works perfectly, exept for one thing:

At boot, it happens that the device changes sometimes. So, sometimes the ipod is recognized as /dev/sdc2 and then I have to change the device name in the /etc/fstab, which is a bit annoying.

Does anyone know a simple way to fix this ?
Thanks

Last edited by rebootl (2012-06-11 16:58:45)

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DSpider

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble mounting external harddrive

Yes.

Use the UUID.

$ sudo blkid

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rebootl

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble mounting external harddrive

Great, that's it.

Thanks

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