Force drive to mount to specfic mountpoint

[sabot105mm]

my drive keeps changing mount points from ada2 to adb2 etc how do i force it to mount to a fixed mount point

 

[L&LD]

Give it a name.

 

[TeHashX]

If you want to label the disk, use this command

tune2fs -L "desired_label" /dev/sda1

To delete the label

tune2fs -L "" /dev/sda1

In both cases you have to reboot or replug the disk to see changes

 

[huotg01]

Give it a name.

Another way is to work with the ID of the disk/partition.

In order to know what the IDs are, simply do the command blkid at the terminal prompt.

After that you can mount your disk/partition using the UUID.

A good explanation here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-finding-using-uuids-to-update-fstab/
or http://centoscert.com/content/how-mount-drive-uuid

host # mount -U a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b /directory/you/mount/this/disk/on

and you could instruct your system to mount this partition by UUID from within the fstab, as well. It works basically the same way that the LABEL keyword does:


host # cat /etc/fstab
...
UUID=a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b /directory/you/mount/this/disk/on ext3fs defaults 1 1