HI, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only > one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the > directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. > > I'd like to mount whichever one is attached at the same mount point, > without having to specify the device. For example, rather than: > > $ mount /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ST316002_1A_DEF107679C83-0:0-part1 /mnt/backup
That is device name by ID. There is also by LABEL entry. > I'd like to say: > > $ mount /mnt/backup > > The latter works for whichever is specified first in /etc/fstab, but not > the other one. You set LABEL to the same one. Then /dev/disk/by-label/* should be the same for both. LABEL can be set for FAT system using mlabel command from mtools package. (Or MS-DOS label command) No need to have custome script executed from shell. Even Desktop icon of GNOME are the same! > They are both *usually* the only USB disk attached, so they both appear as > /dev/sdc1, but I don't really want to depend on that. > > Is this possible? Yes. Also if you still want to have different label, you can still create single device name alias for both device using custom udev script. See files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ specially 60-persistent-storage.rules . Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org