Re: Multiple USB hard disks

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andrew P <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:-


I have a pair of USB hard disks and at the moment, it's basically pot luck
(or the order in which I plug them in) which one gets mounted onto sda and
which goes on sdb. What I want to be able to do is for the same disk to
always be mounted on the same device so that I can then consistently mount
it elsewhere.

Give each of the drives a specific volume name[0] and SUSE will create
mount points under /media using those names. That way you don't need to
worry about which one is /dev/sda and which one is /dev/sdb.


[0] Either using Windows or by reformatting them using mkdosfs.

Regards,
David Bolt

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