[LUNI] Newbie USB HDD question

[jpodraza]

Hi,

I have an external HDD drive (SimpleDrive - USB 2.0 - 250GB
- vfat) connected to an email server running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6).

When I boot up the server, the HDD can be mounted as
/dev/sdc1.  Over the course of a day or two, it will move to
/dev/sdd1 and /dev/sde1.

I put this line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdc1  /mnt/exthdd  vfat  defaults  0 0

That didn't stop it.

I added similar lines for /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sde1.  This
helped in that the HDD remained mounted after shifting, but
eventually it disconnects completely.  I don't know if it
moves on to /dev/sdf1 and beyond.

Restarting the server brings it back to /dev/sdc1.  I would
like to get this stable.  I have some cron jobs that back up
parts of the server to this HDD.

Thanks,
J.Pod.


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James Podraza 
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Wood Dale School District #7 
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