external drive mounting problem

TWH0523

Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:16:40 pm

I am running Zorin 15 Ultimate. I have a USB hub with 3 drives attached. 1 of the drives is encrypted with VeraCrypt. When I boot Zorin it will give that drive a sde1 or sdf1 listing. The problem is when I auto mount favorites with VeraCrypt it will mount the drive sometimes and doesn't mount other times. Is there a way I can get Zorin to list the drive with the same drive letters every time. The 3 drives are never unplugged from the hub and I always plug the hub into the same USB port ( my computer is a laptop) that's why I have to unplug them when I move my laptop. This problem also messes with my virtualbox OS's,
Any help would be appreciated.

Aravisian

Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:45:46 pm

TWH0523 wrote:I am running Zorin 15 Ultimate. I have a USB hub with 3 drives attached. 1 of the drives is encrypted with VeraCrypt. When I boot Zorin it will give that drive a sde1 or sdf1 listing. The problem is when I auto mount favorites with VeraCrypt it will mount the drive sometimes and doesn't mount other times. Is there a way I can get Zorin to list the drive with the same drive letters every time. The 3 drives are never unplugged from the hub and I always plug the hub into the same USB port ( my computer is a laptop) that's why I have to unplug them when I move my laptop. This problem also messes with my virtualbox OS's,
Any help would be appreciated.

The simplest solution I can think of would be to not automount the drives. Manually mount them in the order you want them assigned in. If you are gung-ho for automount, I wonder if you could set it up manual mount, then create a bash script to mount them in the order you want.

TWH0523

Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:20:15 am

I have to manually mount the drive when zorin labels it as sdf1, I don't have the problem with the 3 internal volumes that are encrypted, so I can still do that, but I was hoping for a way to make that drive as sde1 every time. I know this is not a serious problem as I only have to mount 1 drive manually, but I thought there might be a way to do it.

Aravisian

Tue Aug 20, 2019 4:39:39 am

TWH0523 wrote:I have to manually mount the drive when zorin labels it as sdf1, I don't have the problem with the 3 internal volumes that are encrypted, so I can still do that, but I was hoping for a way to make that drive as sde1 every time. I know this is not a serious problem as I only have to mount 1 drive manually, but I thought there might be a way to do it.

Any problem that is bugging you is serious.
It just may not be critical

You want it solved, all the same and the sooner the better.
Sadly, I do not have the knowledge to help directly, but hopefully I can help point you in the right direction.

The label is set by fstab.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
Therefor, I think the mountpoint should be the thing you wish to change. Examining if that is also in fstab, I found this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoveMountpointHowto

Swarfendor437

Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:00:39 pm

Aravisian's answer on editing fstab was correct. Tutorial here:

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-li ... -in-linux/

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