Re: fstab entries for two different pendrives?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I have the following problem:
>> yesterday I bought a new 256 MB pendrive, that wants to be mounted
>> as `/dev/sda' whereas the other one I have wants `/dev/sda1'.
>> Now, if in /etc/fstab I put the sda entry first, then can't mount sda1;
>> and vice versa, if I put sda1 first then I can't mount sda.
>> 
>> Any suggestion to be able to mount both?



Americo Monteiro <a_monteiro@netcabo.pt> writes:

> That new pen doesn't have a partition created...
> remove every file from it, then with fdisk or qtparted create a partition on 
> it and format it.
>
> both pens will be mounted as /dev/sda1
>
> carefull, if you keep both pens connected  then the second will be /deb/sdb1
>
>
> regards (i can't post in the group, don't know why)



Thanks, I did the opposite: I removed the partition from the old pen
and now both can be mounted as /dev/sda (see my previous post).
The strange is that I didn't manage to create a partition on the new pen
with parted, or anyway after creating it, the pen still required
/dev/sda.

Cheers,
Rodolfo