How to assign a specific /dev device to a specific external device?

Sat Jul 2 18:34:29 UTC 2005

On za, 2005-07-02 at 12:18 -0600, zer0halo wrote:

> For example, when I plug in my thumbdrive, sometimes it's assigned to
> /dev/sda1, but other times it might be assigned /dev/sda2 or
> /dev/sdb1. So it's not possible to put an entry in my /etc/fstab that
> always mount a particular device to the same mount point because I
> don't know what /dev that device might get assigned when it gets
> plugged in.

Hotplug in hoary should take care of this and should mount any removable
drive under /media/$LABEL where $LABEL is the label that the drive has.
-- 
Dennis K.
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