Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:48:25 +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote:

> Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave
> this disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is
> convenient for me, because I use the automatically generated mountpoint
> in some scripts [1].
> 
> However when I mount the new disk it gets a suffix appended to it volume
> name (/media/mydisk-1 instead of just /media/mydisk). I presume the UUID
> of the old disk with the same volume label is retained somewhere causing
> the system to append the suffix in order to generate a unique name.

Enforce the use of the label in "/etc/fstab" and mount the disk out of "/
media" which is handle automatically by udev. Static mount point should 
be defined in "/etc/fstab". 

You could also create your own udev rule to supersede the auto-renaming 
of udev system.

I assume the nature of the udev "/media" mount point is precisely to 
avoid name collisions.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón