On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 19:06:29 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/14/2019 02:18 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 10:20:51 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 01/14/2019 09:22 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > Assuming there are entries in fstab for each partition, [...] > > > > > > for i in /dev/sd<device_letter>*; do mount $i; done > > > > > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > > > There are not. > > > > > > > > In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with > > > > lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with > > > > 20 partitions each). > > > > > > But thankfully I don't have to deal with the most general case as I am > > > as compulsive about giving all partitions a reasonably unique label as > > > Debian is about assigning UUIDs. > > > > "Reasonably unique" doesn't really cut it. > > For my current 2.2TB, the labels seem acceptably unique: > > MainCdrive my-big-dvd fromdell richardofdell > > debversionricharProjects F_drive OldMachine fullstretch > > debian8.6 recover-common > tomboy-testing owlcommon new-net-inst good-fvwm > tst_mysql tst_mariadb > dummy target gddrescued_commo jessie8-6-6 common > stretch-2nd > 17oct2017 common-bak backup_homedirs myhome > dectest scratch_pad > FreeAgentGoFlexDrive windows GOFLEXPART5 recovered > mate-full > post-failure MISC-backups
Sure, but this sort of ad hoc naming "scheme" means that you have to be aware of the entire current population of names every time you create a new one. That presents a danger of collision. Cheers, David.
