[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question

[jedi]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Mike LaPlante wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
> > All
> > I have two external USB hard drives on my Linux box, they never get 
> > unplugged, and they are listed in fstab.  But on boot they don't always 
> > come back as expected - the one I think of a ONE, might come back as 
> > TWO, etc.  Is that just a feature of the beast?  BTW - Restarting 
> > usually fixes that.
> > Regards
> > Fred James
> >   
> You can setup Udev rules to identify each drive and create symlinks such 
> as /dev/usbdriveONE and /dev/usbdriveTWO.

You can also mount them by UUID.

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