I've searched everywhere I could and I can't seem to find this specific problem. I have two external drives and one internal drive (in addition to my main drive). The three drives are all setup to be mounted in fstab.

However, I just restarted my computer and one of the drives that used to be at /dev/sdg1 is now at /dev/sdc1. How do I get it to mount to the correct point everytime I reboot?

Side note, I've been using the computer for a couple months and haven't had this problem until now.

Here's my fstab:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=3f29a4e8-a3c2-400d-96b9-65bbf86ebdd2 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=6a3abef8-442f-4ea8-8882-41520e801c58 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/music ext3 defaults,user 0 0
/dev/sdg1 /media/disk ext3 defaults,user 0 0
/dev/sdh1 /media/myBook ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0


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/dev/sdg1 /media/disk ext3 defaults,user 0 0 <--this is the drive that is mounting at /dev/sdc1

Welcome to LQ!

external drives will get automounted. You may want to disable that.

#man automount

Having external drives mount automatically when you boot may not be a good idea. If the drive isn't connected, the "mount -a" will fail and the boot process will abort. You can use the "noauto" mount option in the /etc/fstab entry to prevent this.

For external drives, use "UUID=<filesystem UUID#>" instead of the device node in the first field of /etc/fstab. You can find this out by using the "udevinfo" command. For example, to find the UUID of the filesystem mounted on /dev/sdb1, use "udevinfo -q env -n /dev/sdb1". The entry will look like your entry for /dev/sda1 that you posted. Then you can mount the external drive even if it has been assigned a different device node.

On my system (openSUSE), if there is an entry in /etc/stab, then HAL & friends will not automount the drive. If you manually mount an external drive, don't mount under /media. Leave that for the automount system. I think that Ubuntu is configured differently and may modify /etc/fstab, but this may be an earlier version.

Also check if you have a program called "halmount". It is a very convenient program (script actually) that you run as a normal user. You can use it to trigger the automount system to mount a partition by giving its node or its label. You can use it to mount a dvd or cdrom or to eject. You may not have it however. ( may only be on certain rpm based systems ) I'm just bringing it up, because if you do have it, using it to mount, unmount or eject media is very handy.

So there's no way to force it to mount to the same point everytime? Or if I remove both of my external drives from the fstab they will mount to the same spot?

The reason it's a problem is I have playlists on my main drive that reference files from these drives. If the drive doesn't mount to the same spot everytime, my playlists break.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks @jschiwal! That worked perfectly! Very Much Appreciated.

Just for anyone else who may have this problem, here is my final fstab file per @jschiwal's instructions

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=3f29a4e8-a3c2-400d-96b9-65bbf86ebdd2 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=6a3abef8-442f-4ea8-8882-41520e801c58 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/music ext3 defaults,user 0 0
UUID=3785dff1-425b-4c59-a998-9d7408f726c6 /media/disk ext3 defaults,user 0 0
UUID=486CF04F6CF03970 /media/myBook ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0