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[SOLVED] fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« on: July 07, 2014, 11:39:32 AM »
Hi!

I'm just trying to set a fixed mount point for a USB pendrive. As the machine that Core is running on can have multiple pendrives attached and removed, I want a way to set a single one to be mounted on a specific location (or preserve its default location so no other USB will get its name).

Is there some way to do this?

Thanks
« Last Edit: August 08, 2014, 05:57:36 PM by Zendrael »

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2014, 11:49:00 AM »
Mount by label instead of device.

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2014, 08:01:43 AM »
Hi Mr. Gerald_clark!

Can I do it even with my device NOT appearing on /dev/disk/by-label/ ?

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2014, 10:29:51 AM »
Label the filesystem.

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2014, 01:10:40 AM »
You can use blkid to output the disk with a label. "blkid -lt LABEL=mylabel -o device"
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2014, 01:20:10 PM »
Thank you Mr. Curaga and Mr. Gerald_Clark!

Everything is working ok now!

Got the device using

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blkid -L MY_DEVICE_LABEL
then I mount it in the place that I want.

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2014, 01:54:29 PM »
If you have installed util-linux
Just do:
mount  -L mylabel  my/mount/point
or add to /etc/fstab
"LABEL=mylabel   my/mount/point   auto   defaults 0 0"
and issue a "mount /my/mount/point'
« Last Edit: July 13, 2014, 01:56:32 PM by gerald_clark »

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Re: fixed mount point of USB mass storage
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2014, 05:57:14 PM »
Thank you for your help Mr. Gerald_Clark!

I'm not loading the util-linux, so I kept up with my own shell script.

Thanks!