External Hard Drive changes from /dev/sdf to /dev/sdb back and forth


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Hi all neowinian tuxes (I'm clever aren't I?). I have an external hard drive (WD My Book Essentials 2.0) which I have formatted to ext3 and ridded of fat32 and the included crap. It doesn't have a power button so I like to leave it to boot with my system however with my new installation from Linux Mint back to regular Ubuntu, it seems to change by itself to /dev/sdb when it was originally /dev/sdf. My question now is how can I leave it to one or the other permanently? I have it listed under fstab twice, one for sdf and the other for sdb on the same mount point so it won't have a mind of its own but boot messages sometimes annoy me to change it to one but it changes so I'm lost.

My fstab is below:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>	   <dump>  <pass>
proc									   /proc		   proc		 defaults					0  0  
# /dev/sda1
UUID=f2cc78c6-3dbc-4d1d-869d-24f79065c6a7  /			   ext3		 defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1  
# /dev/sda5
UUID=40d3c396-32f4-47a0-a594-01f310193432  none			swap		 sw						  0  0  
/dev/scd0								  /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660  user,noauto,exec			0  0  
/dev/scd1								  /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660  user,noauto,exec			0  0  
/dev/fd0								   /media/floppy0  auto		 rw,user,noauto,exec		 0  0  
/dev/sdf1								  /media/Book	 ext3		 defaults					0  0  
/dev/sdb1								  /media/Book	 ext3		 defaults					0  0

Note: /dev/sda is the main drive ubuntu is installed on, aka filesystem

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You may want to try using the UUID for the drive instead of /dev/***

To find the UUID use the command blkid

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