USB drives and device names

[Bruce Dawson]

You can use 'mount -U' to mount by UUID or 'mount -L' to mount by volume
label. On newer distributions, it will put them in /media/<volumelabel>.

Dan Coutu wrote:
> On Linux a USB connected hard drive appears as a SCSI device. But the 
> naming of the device seems to 'float' based on who-knows-what criteria.
>
> So for example yesterday I saw an USB drive device change from being 
> /dev/std to /dev/stc. Talk about unique! I've seen the letter increment 
> before when you disconnect a drive and reconnect it (the USB connection 
> is what I'm referring to here) but never have I seen it decrement.
>
> Is there any kind of algorithm that could be used, perhaps within a 
> shell script, in order to reliably mount a USB drive without fail and 
> without having to guess at the device name?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
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