Which device assigned to removable media

[Mikkel]

On 05/03/2010 03:36 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 
> My original post was somewhat unclear. The question was which device is 
> assigned to the disk when it's plugged in so I can know which device to 
> mount.
> 
> It appears that if I look at /dev/disk/by-label, the device name -- 
> Sansa\x20e250 for example, is a symbolic link to the device -- ../../
> sdb1 for example. I can then mount /dev/sdb1.
> 
> Thanks to all who replied.
> 
> Geoffrey
By default, it gets the next free SCSI ID. This depends on what else
is connected. This is a problem with removable drives. This is why
we have UUID. When a drive has a UUID, you can mount the drive using
that, instead of its device. (man uuidgen) You probably already have
some examples of using UUID to mount drives in /etc/fstab, and
possible in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

UUID=ea762d79-2df7-4af6-9029-577347e093f8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

Mikkel
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