On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 14:07 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:43:04PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:58:28 -0500 > > Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I just realized that sometime fairly recently my usb2 > > > drive I use for backups has stopped showing up as > > > /dev/sdc and instead shows up as /dev/sdd (with no > > > device named /dev/sdc anywhere). > > > > Actually, it was weirder that just the name change. > > A "df" command showed /backup already mounted on /dev/sdc5 > > and the free space about what I'd expect, but if I did an > > "ls" on /backup, there was nothing there, and if I > > did an "fdisk -l", it reported /dev/sdd, but not /dev/sdc. > > > > It's like the name changed sometime after the system was already > > up and the drive mounted. > > I've seen this happen -- I've just assumed I manually mounted something > (usually on top of something else) instead of letting the automounter > handle it. Maybe I'll pay more attention next time it happens and see > if I can figure out what happens. > > Kurt > -- > Be frank and explicit with your lawyer ... it is his business to confuse > the issue afterwards. > I had a similar problem. My usb drive either appeared as /dev/sdb or /dev/sdf. I finally labeled the drive using e2label -- my disk is formatted ext2 I think I mounted it once, guessing if it was /dev/sdb or /dev/sdf Then I did e2label /dev/sdf ST330083_1A_305 I put an entry in /etc/fstab LABEL=ST330083_1A_305 /media/usbdisk ext2 user,noauto I now mount the device by doing mount /media/usbdisk -Rick
