Hi Tom, yes, I'm unmounting it (or there probably wouldn't be any data on it either :) and then taking it off the system. There is an entry in /etc/fstab that comes and goes each time its plugged in, but the device still increments for some reason (don't even know where its keeping track of what it was last time if its not in fstab? Ta Peter On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:47 pm, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 8:16 pm, Peter Nunn wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm just experimenting with a WinFast Disk (USB solid state disk) and it seems to be working OK and being found as a scsi device when I plug it in OK, except that it keeps mounting it as the next device each time its attached (ie /media/sda1, /media/sdb1, /media/sdc1 etc.)
Is there any way of stopping it doing this?
It leaves the /media/sdx1 directory behind each time its unplugged, but doesn't seem to matter if I delete it or not each time, it still uses the next letter.
just a thought, but are you explicitly "umount"ing it before unplugging it? If not, your system might think /dev/sda is still "in use" when you plug it in a second time, hence the allocation of /dev/sdb (then c, d, e...)