External cases for internal IDE drives; LiveCDs

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:

> How do you figure out which block device it is, when you want to mount
> it?

I've found the easiest way is to apply a label to the filesystem and mount 
it via the label in /etc/fstab.  The usb/firewire devices will be 
dynamically allocated block device names like sda, sdb, etc.  Using labels 
avoids a lot of messing around.

Here is an example entry from an /etc/fstab on one of our boxes:

LABEL=archive   /mnt/archive    xfs     defaults      0 0

Rob

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