Mounting USB devices with stable names

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Wed Nov 15 16:06:51 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Hi Mikkel -

> If you are creating a new file system, the -l option of mkdosfs will
> let you label the drive. I have not found any easy way to change the

Just a small precision as the French say, according to the manpage 
mkdosfs needs the -n switch to set the volume name.

> label under Linux. It looks like John Austin post on mlabels is the

On his /dev/fd0 problem, I wonder what happens if you

ln -sf /dev/sdxy /dev/fd0

assuming one isn't much interested in /dev/fd0?

-Andy




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