[Gllug] Yet more problems with an external disk drive

[Martin A. Brooks]

John G Walker wrote:
> Any idea as to handle this unpredictability? Or, better still, how to
> make the device identifiable? Preferably, in either case, before I tear
> my hair out.
>
> I'm running SuSE 10.2,

You have a couple of options:

1)  Use udev rules to make sure that disk always gets the same name
2) Mount by UUID instead of by device name.

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