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.

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