Western Digital external HD stange name

Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 24 21:31:28 UTC 2009


Hi

When I plug my external HDD (Western Digial Passport)[1], it is mounted as:
ls /media/629a69fb-898e-4965-ba06-0294d7e24c94/
instead of /media/disk.

It is mounted as /dev/sdb1[2], so if I umount /media/62... and:
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk,
it works

Why is mounting with such strange name? How to make it mount as
/media/disk?

Thanks

Marcelo

[1]
Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: Product: External HDD
Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Western Digital
Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 
575845323037413031343333
Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
choice
Aug 24 21:45:47 xps1530 kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Aug 24 21:45:52 xps1530 kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD 
  800BEVSExternal  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0

[2]
Aug 24 21:45:53 xps1530 kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal




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