[Gllug] Yet more problems with an external disk drive

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 03:48:20PM +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> I use fstab to define the permissions on an external drive, in order to
> be able to use the drive to store backups.
> 
> In the past, the drive has been identified as both device sdb1 and sdf1
> (though not, of course, simultaneously), and so I've provided entries
> in fstab for both these, and it's worked so far. Well at least until
> yesterday.

Is the drive ext2/3 formatted?  If so you should be able to label it
while it is mounted ('e2label /dev/sdd1 backup') then use the label in
the fstab:

LABEL=backup  /mnt/backup    ext3    defaults        1 2

According to the fstab manpage XFS also supports these sorts of
labels, but AFAIK not things like FAT.

Rich.

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