Re: Mount USB HDD to a certain /media/folder after boot

On 26/05/2008, David Vincent <dvincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

let's see if i can get this right.

every drive is represented in /dev as a /dev/sd**. the "s" means scsi
and yes, even if you have ide drives it uses the s, they changed to that
a while ago, someone else could tell you why. the "d" stands for disk,
the next character represents the order the drives are detected by linux
so if you have a sda and a sdb, a is the first drive and b is the second
(for example on an ide channel the a would be the master and the b would
be the slave). then you get a number to represent the partition on the
disk - sda1 and sda2 for example.

once a removable drive is automounted by ubuntu it is mounted in the
/media folder on a new folder named after the disklabel if you've
labeled your disks or the device name like cdrom0 or floppy0. labeling
your disks is a good idea if you use automounting otherwise for your usb
devices ubuntu will use names like "disk" and "disk1" which aren't very
descriptive and as i have written before, if you mount them in a
different order those names will swap around and then things get
confusing (if you plug them in in a different order then the /dev/sd**
will change). removable drives include cds, dvds, usb disks, floppies,
and more.

[snip]

Hey,

One thing that hasn't come up is that removable USB drives in Ubuntu
can have their mountpoints changed using the right-click -> Properties
-> Volume -> Settings

This will set the mount options based on the UUID. You can see and
change the options using gconf-editor and looking in system ->
storage.

cheers,
Owen.

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