[Solved] Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi all, The problem is solved. While digging around I noticed there was an empty mydisk directory under /media even when none of the disks with that volume label were attached to the system. It must have been an artefact left over from some previous failure of the old disk. After removing that

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Camaleon, > Enforce the use of the label in "/etc/fstab" and mount the disk out of "/ > media" which is handle automatically by udev. Static mount point should > be defined in "/etc/fstab". Yes, I know that is an option, but as I wrote I don't want to have to edit fstab on all the systems i

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:48:25 +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave > this disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is > convenient for me, because I use the automatically generated mountpoint > in some scripts [1]. > >

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Andrei, I use the KDE device notifier to mount the disk. I am not really sure if that has its own automount mechanism though. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 28 aug 10, 11:48:25, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave this > disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is convenient for me, > because I use the automatically generated mountpoint in some scripts [1]. > >

Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave this disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is convenient for me, because I use the automatically generated mountpoint in some scripts [1]. However when I mount the new disk it gets a suffix appended to