2016-07-26 19:59 GMT+02:00 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@fastmail.us>:
On 07/26/16 07:31, John Obaterspok wrote:


    Yes, I apparently had it mounted as several devices but normally
    it is /dev/sdd1.


Arne you aware that you can use /dev/disk/by-label/ now when you have a label set?

-- john


That was one of many things I was not aware of.

[bobg@Box10 ~]$ ls -al /dev/disk/by-label/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  80 Jul 26 12:49 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 120 Jul 26 02:11 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul 26 02:11 F23b -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul 26 12:49 st1000 -> ../../sdd1


There are other /dev/disk/by-xxx links there as well. Depends on use-case, but by-label is the one I use most.

-- john