having trouble keeping external drive at one drive

[Scott Berry]

Could I get one clarification please.  In which column does the uuid go
for the drive?

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 08:55 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If by drive letter you mean the device name, then the answer is no. The 
> > kernel uses the device names in the sequence it detects the disks and 
> > the time until a specific device is found isn't constant.
> 
> Actually, there is a way to give a device a persistent device name.
> Unfortunately, there is not yet any reasonably friendly utilities to do
> it for you.  For the purpose of fstab, UUID is the way to go.
> 
> Use sudo blkid to list the UUID of all installed hard drives, including
> your removable, and add that UUID to your fstab.
> 
> 
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