mapping usb disks to devices

mapping usb disks to devices

Gabor Szabo szabgab at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 00:15:04 IDT 2017


Excellent. Thank you!
Gabor

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use blkid.
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a USB hub connected to my Raspberry Pi and I have several
>> external Hard disks connected to the USB hub.
>> It seems the order the hard disks are mapped to the device files
>> /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 is random. On every boot it might be
>> different.
>>
>> This of course breaks the mapping I have in /etc/fstab for the mounts.
>>
>> How can I solve this so I won't need to update /etc/fstab after every
>> boot?
>>
>> Is there a way to map specific hard disks to specific device files?
>>
>> regards
>>    Gabor



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