Backup name

[Nils Kassube]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>      A while back I bought a plastic box you can put a hard drive
> within and then plug in the USB plug into the Linux computer and at
> first it showed up as /media/disk-1 on my computer. I would then use
> rsync to backup the computer.
> 
>      But when I changed the hard drive to a larger one and format to
> ext3 instead of that Windows format the name of the backup changed to
> this:
> 
>          /media/ebf426af-fe2b-404a-ab35-402ec8494295/
> 
> Which is long and rather hard to type right. Does anyone have any
> idea how to change the name to disk-1 again?

If you really insist to use the name disk-1 you could give the partition 
a label of that name, see "man e2label". But I'd rather use a different 
name which is more descriptive like "BACKUP". Anyway, you should make 
sure that the names are unique for all your systems.


Nils