Mounting drives by label

[Ahmed Kamal]

I think sata drives are not meant to be persistent. Replace /dev/sdX in your
fastab, with LABEL=audio_drive or so. This will mount the drives by label
Regards

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Paul F. Johnson <
paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've labelled my drives using e2label and they're now being recognised as
> home_drive, audio_drive and devel_drive. I can only sometimes mount them
> using fstab as it looks like the labels aren't being used, but the last
> /dev/
> sd* is (for example, /dev/sde1 might be audio_drive, but then on the next
> boot, /dev/sdf1 is audio_drive but then the system fails on booting with
> the
> error that /dev/sde1 is mounted).
>
> There is nothing in /etc/mtab, but the problem seems to occur when the
> system
> is rebooted after the shutdown procedure didn't work correctly.
>
> Any ideas on this or what I should file it under with BZ?
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
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