[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive question

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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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.

Sorry for the late answer, I've been travelling a lot lately and am
behind on my list e-mail.

I just use e2label to label each partition and they always mount the
right way.

e2label /dev/sdc1 DISK-A
e2label /dev/sdd1 DISK-B

When I log into my RHEL 5.2 machine, there they are on the desktop.
They are always mounted under /media as DISK-A and DISK-B.
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Solutions Architect Team Lead, Central Region
512-241-0774 office / 512-585-5631 cell / 512-857-1345 fax
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