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pmv

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2003-09-30

Posts: 22

usb-harddrive mount problems

I have a USB disk that's working just fine.
The problem is that every time I reboot drive changes from sda1 to sdd1 or vice versa. So I always get drive doesn't exist and have to change it in fstab.

Is there a way to lock that drive as sda1?

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Re: usb-harddrive mount problems

you may need to set up a udev rule ... ie for say /dev/usbdrive & that way fstab can pick it up

HTH

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Mr Green

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: usb-harddrive mount problems

Either that or check http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

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pmv

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2003-09-30

Posts: 22

Re: usb-harddrive mount problems

Thanks!
I changed my fstab to use /dev/disk/by-label/ and now it works fine.