Israel Garcia ha scritto: > 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 > > thanks in advance > Israel > > > Another quick and dirty way: put a file (maybe an hiden file) on your device, and on top of your script search for that file on the various disks... Cheers Lorenzo Quatrini