On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:49:59 -0600 Rick Sewill <rsewill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Yea, that might be a good idea for this drive if the device is gonna change on me. I generally don't like the LABEL= syntax (I've had had things like installing an alternate OS "helpfully" change all the disk labels and render my primary OS inoperable till I go to rescue mode and fix all the grub and fstab files). I took a different approach for now, I changed the cron script that mounts the drive if it isn't mounted before doing backups to run fdisk -l and look for the 500GB drive (there's only one :-).
