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usb partitions jump around

Asked by Jerry Story

I have a 300 gig usb hard drive divided into 3 partitions of 100 gigs each.

The problem is every time I boot (Feisty) these partitions jump around.
For example 'disk' becomes 'disk-1', 'disk-1' becomes 'disk-2', etc.
Everything else is okay.

This is what I have in mtab.
/dev/sdc6 /media/disk ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdc5 /media/disk-1 ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/disk-2 ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

I edited mtab but it somehow got changed.

How can I make the partitions not jump around?

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thanks for the question.

You can assign the drives via its UUID blockid-label. This won't change between boots.

Run

blkid

to obtain the ids for your different partitions and then add them into the /etc/fstab file instead of the device file.

UUID=<blk id disk1> /media/disk-1 ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

I hope this helps

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