On 05/03/2010 03:36 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > My original post was somewhat unclear. The question was which device is > assigned to the disk when it's plugged in so I can know which device to > mount. > > It appears that if I look at /dev/disk/by-label, the device name -- > Sansa\x20e250 for example, is a symbolic link to the device -- ../../ > sdb1 for example. I can then mount /dev/sdb1. > > Thanks to all who replied. > > Geoffrey By default, it gets the next free SCSI ID. This depends on what else is connected. This is a problem with removable drives. This is why we have UUID. When a drive has a UUID, you can mount the drive using that, instead of its device. (man uuidgen) You probably already have some examples of using UUID to mount drives in /etc/fstab, and possible in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
UUID=ea762d79-2df7-4af6-9029-577347e093f8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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