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fstab question
\ Colleen Beamer (16 Aug 2007)
. \ Rumen Yotov (16 Aug 2007)
. \ Tim (16 Aug 2007)
. . \ Ow Mun Heng (16 Aug 2007)
. \ Alex Schuster (16 Aug 2007)
. \ Stroller (16 Aug 2007)
. \ James (16 Aug 2007)
. . \ Mark Knecht (16 Aug 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Re: fstab question
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Mark Knecht
Date:	16 Aug 2007

On 8/16/07, James <wireless> wrote:
> Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > The wrinkle is that my son bought me a usbstick. I can mount it just
> > fine. However, if my usb external hard drive is not powered on on boot,
> > the stick is recognized at sdc1. If the usb drive is powered on then,
> > the stick is recognized as sdd1. So, this means that if I want to use
> > one or the other or both, I keep having to change fstab. Is there a way
> > I can set the device to always be the same - i.e. I always want the usb
> > external drive to be sdc1 and sdc2 and the usb stick to be sdd1.
>

Label your partitions and mount by label not by device name. Works
great for me and is a necessity as I have 5 external drives of
different types.

HTH,
Mark
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