USB drives and device names

[Dan Coutu]

Interesting. I had known about mounting by label but had not thought to 
use it for this. Duh. As I recall the fstab entry to do this specifies 
the label instead of the device name. This just might work...

Thanks!

Dan

Bruce Dawson wrote:
> 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>.
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> Dan Coutu wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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