which drive is it?

[Scott]

V Krish wrote:

>I have three external USB drives connected to an AMD
>machine running FC3. These are mounted as follows:
>/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb1
>/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb2
>/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/usb3 
>
>Is there some way to figure out which physical drive
>is mounted on /mnt/usb2 so I can pull that one out
>after a umount (short of disconnecting each in turn)? 
>
>Thank you,
>Krish
>  
>
     Check out the udev help files:  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/.
Briefly, you can write a rule so that a particular drive is always
mounted the same way either by partition name or drive name (there are 
other options too, but I haven't needed them!)

Scott