Mount USB HDD to a certain /media/folder after boot

[Karl Larsen]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 19:08 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>     I have 3 USB external hard drives. One is rotory the other 2 are USB 
>> memory sticks. All three have been treated by fdisk to give me the 
>> wanted partitions. I always umount the thing before using fdisk and mkfs 
>> to do what I want.
>>
>>     You can do all this with care and never have a problem. And when you 
>> make an error you know it and can fix it easy and fast.
>> Karl
>>     
>
>
> Hi Karl
> My point in this case is not the amount one owns !
>
> Everybody of us owns these and some to have and 
> manage much much more what you mentioned !! ;-)
>
> All my media are (if possible) given a human readable unique ID !!! ;-D
>
> WSxxx = Workstation xxx, where xxx is a number
> WU0064red, WU0256red, WU8000red = USB Stick with red stickers and the
> capacity in MB
> There are more WUxxxxyyy's with xxxx = capacity im MB again and yyy =
> sticker's color
>
> Everything starting with W... belongs to a specific system, ie 
> red = my system
> yel = her system
> blu = our system
>
> Another group are system independent LanDrives (TCP/IP resp USB):
> LD14x = LanDrive 142 or 14x for more / others !
>
> In the bespoken LanDrive unit the nomenclature goes deeper similarly:
>
> LD142 = unit
> LD142ext3 / LD142fat / LD142fat32 / LF142hpfs / LF142ntfs = respective
> needed partitions
> Within these partitions are directories / folders i.e.
>
> WS221 for our (file server / shared storage) system
> WS222 for my system
> WS224 for her system
>
> I am used to such a very properly designed and structured concept since
> the seventies 
> where we had to manage thousands of tapes and many dozens of exchangable
> HDD's ! ;-)
>
> May be I am handling this too excessive for my little personal use of
> IT !?
> Sure, too excessive for a retired fellow !!! ;-))
>
> On the other hand my ole brain still recognizes everything I am creating
> and dealing easiest 
> without big plans and notes. ;-D
>
> Hope this was of interest and not too longwinded !? ;-|
>
> Cheers, svobi
>
>
>   
    Not at all. I found that you can give each removable partition a 
name. If your using mkfs.ext3 you use -L name. But with mkfs.vfat you 
use -n name :-)

    I think any ID is an improvement over none. You can go overboard too...

Karl


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