Hmm, sounds like a good idea... how do I label my USB disks so they get mounted as /media/mydisk1 and /media/mydisk2 ? Thanks ----- Original Message ----

From: Daniel Bauer To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 1:15:26 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] External USB hard disks swapping mount-points

On Thursday 07 August 2008 12:00:44, Martin Mielke wrote:

...

I created the ext3 filesystem on both and mounted them just fine under /disk1 and /disk2.

...

Yesterday I had to reboot the system to apply some patches and found those external hard disks wrongly mounted when the system came back to life:

/dev/sdb1 480719088 96188532 360111356 22% /disk2 <-- this should be /disk1 /dev/sdc1 480719088 252211016 204088872 56% /disk1 <-- this should be /disk2

Any idea why this happens??

My USB disks are also mounted in a random order, I guess that's just the way it is...

However, you can give the filesystems a label and then they will always get mounted with that name (here: /media/mylabel ).

I have no entry in fstab for my USB-disks.

Daniel

-- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org