Mount USB HDD to a certain /media/folder after boot
Owen Townend
owen.townend at gmail.com
Tue May 27 03:56:46 UTC 2008
On 26/05/2008, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
>
> let's see if i can get this right.
>
> every drive is represented in /dev as a /dev/sd**. the "s" means scsi
> and yes, even if you have ide drives it uses the s, they changed to that
> a while ago, someone else could tell you why. the "d" stands for disk,
> the next character represents the order the drives are detected by linux
> so if you have a sda and a sdb, a is the first drive and b is the second
> (for example on an ide channel the a would be the master and the b would
> be the slave). then you get a number to represent the partition on the
> disk - sda1 and sda2 for example.
>
> once a removable drive is automounted by ubuntu it is mounted in the
> /media folder on a new folder named after the disklabel if you've
> labeled your disks or the device name like cdrom0 or floppy0. labeling
> your disks is a good idea if you use automounting otherwise for your usb
> devices ubuntu will use names like "disk" and "disk1" which aren't very
> descriptive and as i have written before, if you mount them in a
> different order those names will swap around and then things get
> confusing (if you plug them in in a different order then the /dev/sd**
> will change). removable drives include cds, dvds, usb disks, floppies,
> and more.
>
[snip]
Hey,
One thing that hasn't come up is that removable USB drives in Ubuntu
can have their mountpoints changed using the right-click -> Properties
-> Volume -> Settings
This will set the mount options based on the UUID. You can see and
change the options using gconf-editor and looking in system ->
storage.
cheers,
Owen.
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