If I recall, Dos employed the same label concept, in the form of so-called "disklabels." What I don't know however, is if Mount supports any other filesystem labeling schemes other than the EXT family. On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 08:09:57PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Liz Hare <doggene at earthlink.net> writes: > > > Would it be possible to mount a USB device? How? > > Hi Liz, > It is, but the problem is knowing the name of the device. > On my box, /dev/sdb1 is usually the first partition of my external > device. /dev/sda is my internal hard drive. It really gets problematic > if you have connected multiple USB storage devices. > > You might be able to make this easier using filesystem labels, > especially if your external device has an ext2 or ext3 filesystem. > I don't know how to add a volume label to an MSDOS filesystem. > > Here's a fully-worked example of how labels work, based on my own setup. > My external hard disk has three partitions. The first two aren't > important. Partition 3 has all of my data. It's at /dev/sdb3 right > now. I added a label to the filesystem, using e2label: > e2label /dev/sdb3 cmb_external_hd > You probably want to run that command with the filesystem unmounted. > Now, any time I need to access that partition, I can do so using the > pathname /dev/disk/by-label/cmb_hd_external. > >From now on, I don't have to care about the physical device name. It > could be /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, or anything else. But it doesn't matter. > The logical name /dev/disk/by-label/cmb_external_hd always refers to the > 3rd partition on my external hard drive. > > So hopefully that whole discussion was beneficial, and it will simplify > the process of working with USB devices. > Assuming you've assigned a label of my_fs to a filesystem on your USB > device, you should be able to do: > mount /dev/disk/by-label/my_fs /mnt > amixer > /mnt/amixer.txt > sync > umount /mnt > > Hope this helps. > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
