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I've installed raspbmc, but from what I've seen it's based on raspbian, so this might go for raspbian too.

I've connected a USB hard-drive. Most of the time, it will be automatically mounted on /media/usb0, to which /media/usb is a symlink.

My problem is in that most. What is the best way to have the drive mounted at boot at the same mountpoint?

I did some looking around. Can I use /dev/disk/by-label in /etc/fstab or will that clash with the automatic mounting, which sometimes doesn't work?

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  • Hi Chris. Mount by label or uuid should work fine, however it means it will only mount at boot. Is that what you want?
    – Jivings
    Oct 20, 2012 at 15:49
  • I want it to at least be mounted at boot. Right now sometimes it won't get mounted. And reconnecting it might mount it at /media/usb1, invalidating all media paths stored in the database.
    – Chris Wesseling
    Oct 22, 2012 at 6:22

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I use /dev/disk/by-id without any issues, so I suggest you use that.

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  • This is the best way. These links are updated by udev upon detecting devices.
    – Nakedible
    Oct 29, 2012 at 11:04
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Just for completeness: In 2021, you would typically use the PARTUUID from $ blkid /dev/sdx. Then the /etc/fstab line would start with PARTUUID=xxxxxxxx-yy.

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On Raspbian, automount no longer mounts USB drives as /media/usbx by default since at least 4 years now, probably more. You get them mounted as /media/user/disk_label now, which is also reliable, unless you have a habit of giving the same label to several disks. If you don't label your disks, you'll get /media/user/UUID, which is also reliable, but not really user-friendly.

If you have more than 1 disk, configuring automount will save you time and frustration compared to manually editing /etc/fstab every time.

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