I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by its UUID.
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Any hints, pointers, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Do you really mean USB disk (HD via USB) or USB sticks? I'm just curious; the USB flash memory may not have a UUID. A possible workaround is to use 'udevinfo' to work out how to uniquely identify each device. Using that information, you add a udev rule to add a symlink of your choice, for example, "usb_backup".