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3 Harddisk USB (autofs)

Hi

I have 3 USB harddisk

I want to give each of them a static name (/mnt/disk1)

How can I do that ?

Right now the first pluged usb get the first name (/mnt/disk1 -> /dev/sda1)

But if I plug the second disj before the fist disk it will get the fist disk name (/mnt/disk 1-> /dev/sda1)

Is there any way to make a static name for each of them ?

my /etc/autofs.misc :

Code:

# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $

# This is an automounter map and it has the following format

# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location

# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage



usb            -fstype=auto,nosuid,umask=002,uid=501,gid=501,iocharset=utf8  :/dev/sda1

backup          -fstype=auto,umask=002,uid=501,gid=501,iocharset=utf8      :/dev/sdc1

camera          -fstype=auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=002,uid=501,gid=501      :/dev/sdb1

Thank you

That is a problem because the first USB device (i.e mass storage) the OS finds will be assigned /dev/sda1.

One way to solve this problem would be a script that would examine the output of cdrecord --scanbus and see how the devices are connected.

I don't care about where linux will but the usb (/dev/sd*) I care about the mount name (/mnt/*)

do you know where can I find any script for that ?

Mount points are arbitrary. If you always want to mount a particular drive to the same mount point you do need to know its device.

I don't use hotplug but this might be what you are looking for.
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/