How to handle those "smart" device names at the CLI?

[Thierry de Coulon]

Hello all,

I use an external USB drive for backup purposes. I use Image for Linux for 
this, where I have to hand mount my backup partition as root. The result is 
that the backup files are owned by root.

When I plug the drive in Ubuntu, it gets automounted as something like:
/dev/sde1 on /media/4ae56680-7468-493e-aa40-9bb6c79f00f7 type ext3

What's the smart way of accessing it from a terminal? I don't seem to be able 
to type this sort of "code" correctly, so for the time I have 
umount /dev/sde1 and mount /dev/sde1 on whatever directory I want. 


Thierry