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Re: Changed device for camera..



On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100
Charlie <ariestao@clearmail.com.au> wrote:

> Something changed after this mornings upgrade.
> 
> My camera entry in /etc/fstab has always been:
> /dev/sda1	/cam		vfat
> rw,user,noauto	0	0
> 
> Mounted it as "mount /cam" yesterday afternoon - but I couldn't mount
> it after this mornings upgrade for Debian testing with any command.
> 
> Had to change the fstab entry to:
> /dev/sdb1	/cam		vfat
> rw,user,noauto	0	0
> 
> Just in case someone else might have difficulty.
> 
> My flash drive still mounts as /dev/sda
> 

You can switch to specifying device names using id or uuid instead.
Then you'll never need to worry about device names like sda or sdb.
See the /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-uuid directories, with the
camera connected.

-- 
Kushal


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