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bo
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 Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:54 am Post subject: ubuntu: second hard drive's mount point changes |
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i told fstab to mount it at /media/750gb, but sometimes it changes to /media/disk. any ideas why it does this? i am always having to change my .conf file to make up for the changes, and its annoying. 
heres my currently unanswered ubuntuforums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5827189 |
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wmcbrine
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Ubuntuforums has hundreds of times our userbase, and all of them focused on Ubuntu (vs. a small percentage here), so they'll be more likely to sort you out. I wouldn't bother mentioning pyTivo there, as few of them will know what it is.
But if you want to handle this on the pyTivo level, just make two shares -- one pointing to /media/disk, and one to /media/750gb. Then you won't have to edit your pyTivo.conf. The share that points to the nonexistent mount point will just say it has no recordings.
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bo
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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oh i know how much more traffic they get, and i think my unanswered post is probably on page 8 or so by now
i thought i'd ask here since you guys are so intuitive, and that solution is precisely what i needed. DUH! why didnt i think of that lol. thanks again for the help, im going to start checking the support forum to see if i can help anymore linux users get through the noob-related stuff i have had to learn. |
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wmcbrine
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the falling-off-the-front-page-in-five-minutes thing. I guess that could be a problem.
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rdian06
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: ubuntu: second hard drive's mount point changes |
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| bo wrote: | i told fstab to mount it at /media/750gb, but sometimes it changes to /media/disk. any ideas why it does this? i am always having to change my .conf file to make up for the changes, and its annoying.
heres my currently unanswered ubuntuforums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5827189 |
Off the top of my head, I'd say the automounter is the problem and you should investigate whether you can tell it to ignore the disk. Or somehow set the label for it so that the automounter mounts it with the same name each time.
I'm not really an Ubuntu user so I have no idea whether that's possible... |
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epsilondelta
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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Location: Bloomington, Indiana
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bo
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| epsilondelta wrote: | You now need (starting with hardy or so?) to specify partitions in fstab by UUID, a big long hex string like: c2f6fc55-4bec-4995-919e-8c259a83e81e; which never changes.
Here's a thread which allows you to discover a device's UUID.
When editing fstab, you should see your main partitions already listed in this way, and use that as a template for how to insert the UUID for your device in the right syntax.
For example, I listed one of my partitions in fstab as: | Code: | #backup-1, 80 GB
UUID=c2f6fc55-4bec-4995-919e-8c259a83e81e /media/backup-1 ext3 rw,user 0 0 |
There are fuller descriptions out there of the process googlable -- but I'm not finding them ATM.  Also, I'm a raw linunewb, so beware! -- but the above has kept all my disks mounted just fine...
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that is bloody fantastic epsilon! thanks so much! im implementing that right now, and ill post back how it worked out. |
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