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

Sat May 14 10:47:14 UTC 2011

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:10:13AM +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 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. 

Give the USB disk a volume label, then it'll be mounted on
/media/thelabelyougave.

You can do that with palimpsest (the GUI disk tool), or with something
like e2label/dosfslabel, depending on the filesystem.

Marius Gedminas
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