Gary2MBz Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹ Posted March 15, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted March 15, 2008 You may want to try using the UUID for the drive instead of /dev/*** To find the UUID use the command blkid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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