Re: naming usb devices?

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

thanks colin, that seems to be it!  will play with it a bit.

thanks for the quick reply.
m

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:30:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't
> > turn up what I wanted.  Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a
> > usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different
> > pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate
> > name, say "/mnt/schoolfiles/" and "/mnt/fun/"? This would be
> > convenient (tho not essential) for me.
> 
> Sounds like you want the LABEL= or UUID= syntax in /etc/fstab. See
> fstab(5) for details.
>