On Sb, 28 aug 10, 11:48:25, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave this > disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is convenient for me, > because I use the automatically generated mountpoint in some scripts [1]. > > However when I mount the new disk it gets a suffix appended to it volume name > (/media/mydisk-1 instead of just /media/mydisk). I presume the UUID of the > old > disk with the same volume label is retained somewhere causing the system to > append the suffix in order to generate a unique name. > > Could someone tell me how to get rid of this? I did some searching under /etc > and with Google, but my Google-foo must be lacking.
It might depend on your (auto)mount method. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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