On 8/16/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > The wrinkle is that my son bought me a usbstick. I can mount it just > > fine. However, if my usb external hard drive is not powered on on boot, > > the stick is recognized at sdc1. If the usb drive is powered on then, > > the stick is recognized as sdd1. So, this means that if I want to use > > one or the other or both, I keep having to change fstab. Is there a way > > I can set the device to always be the same - i.e. I always want the usb > > external drive to be sdc1 and sdc2 and the usb stick to be sdd1. >
Label your partitions and mount by label not by device name. Works great for me and is a necessity as I have 5 external drives of different types. HTH, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
