From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: USB Mass Storage Devices Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:29:30 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031025112930.75078d0a.jamtat@mailsnare.net> References: <1067097757.10057.15.camel@Abydos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1067097757.10057.15.camel@Abydos> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Thorsten Alge Cc: linux newbie On 25 Oct 2003 18:02:34 +0200 Thorsten Alge wrote: > > I want to use my usb hd and my usb mp3-player an my linux computer. if i > plug them on on after one, they will assigned as sda (i.e. my usb hd) > and sdb (my mp3-player) . so i can add them to /etc/fstab. the problem > is; if i plug on only one of them or in another order, the device files > are changed to and the mount points are not correct. > > my first idea was to use volume labels. that works fine with my ext2 > partition but i don't helps on my vfat partitions. the compactflash > cards an two of my partitions on my usb-hd must be vfat partitions. > > any ideas how to fix? > Good luck. I don't mean to be callous, but my inquiries here of a similar sort have been met with stony silence. I think USB - at least of the "hot pluggable" variety - has some serious problems under mainstream Linux. I've thought of finding a USB-Linux list on which to pose such questions: you might want to try that if you get no helpful responses here. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs