On Mon 14 Jan 2019 at 10:20:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/14/2019 09:22 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Assuming there are entries in fstab for each partition, [...] > > > > for i in /dev/sd<device_letter>*; do mount $i; done > > > > Rchard Owlett wrote: > > > There are not. > > > > In the most general case i would have a where-to-mount directory with > > lots of directories for the various partitions (here 10 drives with > > 20 partitions each). > > But thankfully I don't have to deal with the most general case as I am as > compulsive about giving all partitions a reasonably unique label as Debian > is about assigning UUIDs.
Would you like to say how you designate unique labels? Is there a pattern to them on a particular device? As in: p1, p2 etc. In the light of > Each device is normally associated with a specific function > (e.g. sneaker-net) or personal project. do you distinguish between devices by means of the label? As in pers-p1, pers-p2 etc. -- Brian.