On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:27 -0400, Bobby wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2007 12:20:31 Israel Garcia wrote: > > Hi, I bought an USB external hdd (500GB) to make my > > backups using dump... but, sometimes my sever > > recognize the hdd device /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc... my > > question is: How can I assign a fixed device for > > example /dev/sdc to my hdd? remember I use some > > scripts to do my backup and I am getting errors > > because the device changes from sdb to sdc and > > I would imagine by manually mounting it Ummm no, that is the problem I imagine, the device changes so it can't be mounted in his script. I can't think of a solution right off hand. Paul