Re: Mounting USB HDs the same every time.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:45:59PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power
> went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came
> back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out
> what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same order
> as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to be
> /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
>
> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge
> deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives
> will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and
> mounted? I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct? The
> other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on each drive
> before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure why, but I don't
> think the drives are getting mounted at bootup.
>

Use volume label names. Name the volume with the tools for the specific filesystem (ext2, JFS, etc) then use LABEL= in fstab and with the mount command. The the respective man pages.

Doug.

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