Re: USB drive name change -

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/25/16 19:46, 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?
>
>  None of this really matters since all I need is to have the data saved and to be able to
>  use it to recover if needed. But I would like things to work predictably whan I
>  configure something. 
It shouldn't make any difference but I just realized that when I label my file systems
I
didn't use e2label but I used tune2fs.

What is the output of "tune2fs -l /dev/sdd1"


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