Michael Torrie wrote:
Russel Caldwell wrote:
I've probably spent more time on this than I should have. Maybe somebody can
help me out. I'm trying to set up an external drive in fstab on an Ubuntu
8.04 machine so that I can mount it explicitly rather than on boot. The line
in fstab is:
The problem with what you're trying to do is that it is very prone to
break if you happen to have some other usb drive plugged in before your
disk. IE you're not always guaranteed to be /dev/sdc1 or whatever.
Could be sdd, sde, f or g or whatever. The correct way to go about this
is to go through HAL.
Or just us the /dev/disk/by-id/*-part1 symlink that was mentioned by
Bart earlier in the thread. Lot easier and available on every modern
distro that I know of. Another way is using LABEL=<volume label name> in
fstab to mount that way. This will work assuming you have put a label on
the volume and your distro has the magic foo to work that. Again most
modern distros do. Ahhhh. udev saves the day.
Mike
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