Re: [opensuse] Volume Mount Sequence

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The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 06:23 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:

I am running OpenSuSE 10.3 with the 2.6 default kernel.

I have four partitions on three external disk drives. Every time I
reboot, not often but it happens, the partitions mount in what appears
to be random order. One time, a partition will be mounted as
'/media/Disk-2' and the next time 'media/Disk'. Since each one contains
NFS exported folders, I have to manually change the pathnames, etc.

As I said in another post with a related problem, this seems like a
problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go
into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand.
Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the
external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance
will be sincerely appreciated.


You have to mount them using their volume label name or id, not the device node.

Two samples, in fstab (manual mount, but automatic will also work):

by label:

LABEL=usb_sg60 /mnt/usb/usb_sg60 reiserfs noatime,user,noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0


by id:

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTravelerCR_ad053f40c9f050-part1
/mnt/usb/Kingston vfat
noauto,user,users,uid=cer,gid=users,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437
0 0


To use a label you have of course to label them first. To use the id you have to determine which id it is - which is fairly simple.


- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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