USB storage devices and /etc/fstab

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:41 -0600, J Taylor wrote:
> I have multiple USB storages devices that are assigned to different /dev/sd* 
> files.  My problem is that a given device does not always have the same file 
> name and I have to manually edit /etc/fstab to mount them.  Is there a way 
> around this?

The easiest way is to label the filesystems and edit your /etc/fstab to
use the labels instead of the device names.  Find one of your devices
(assume it's at /dev/sda1):

	# e2label /dev/sda1 bugaboo

Then put a line such as:

LABEL=/bugaboo    /bugaboo        ext3    noauto,user,rw        1 2

in /etc/fstab.  That device should always mount at /bugaboo.  Note
that the hotplug system will mount it at /media/bugaboo if you plug it
in later.

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