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Howto: Mount multi-partition external in same place every time

Asked by Kevin Kubasik

When mounting an external drive with 3 partitions, I get different mount points/device names every time I mount.

For example:
Partitions 1,2, and 3
/media/disk
/media/disk-1
/media/disk-2

However, every time the drive is remounted, the partitions get mounted at a different mountpoint, this makes my life very difficult as I keep things like my music on the external drive, and constantly updating banshee's info to point to the new mountpoint can be frustrating.

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

The following page details how you can change the volume label on the partitions, as a result they will be mounted using consistent names under /media/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

So for example you could label one partition "MUSIC" which would mount it under /media/MUSIC whenever the device is plugged in.

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Kevin Kubasik (kkubasik) said : 		#2

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