On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 07:46:04AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 07/24/16 18:42, Ed Greshko wrote:
It does what I asked!
You seem to have /dev/sdd1 already mounted on /mnt/temp.
And you've manually mounted /dev/sde1 on /mnt/temp as well as it being automounted on /run/media/bobg.
Not sure that is what you wanted to accomplish.
After boot this morning I switched on the power on the external, usb drive adapter and an icon appeared on the desktop screen. I clicked on "Mount" and got:
/dev/sdd1 on /run/media/bobg/a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
So the command 'e2label /dev/sdd1 st1000' makes it possible to add another device, it doesn't change the name. What did I miss in setting up the external drive initially?
IIRC, yesterday you were labelling /dev/sde1, not sdd1. Did it get enumerated differently today?
If the system consistently mounts the drive to a specific location (ex /run/media/bobg/<UUID> you could make a symbolic link to the mount point in your homedir, say /home/bobg/extdisc. If the drive is mounted you have an easy to use path to it. Otherwise it will just be a broken link, no problem.
jon