Paul wrote: > 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. > I suppose you could put a label on the drive (with tune2fs), then mount it by LABEL=xxxx... I dunno what else to suggest. linux's crappy way of handling disk device names is one of my bigger gripes about it. its really messy in a SAN environment where there's several storage controllers. /dev/sdf could be almost -anything-. I prefer the c1t1d1 notation of traditional Unix systems like Solaris, although there still can be issues identifying the channel #s