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Mounting USB Devices

The method below is deprecated. Modern distros use udev.

By default udev will write unique symlinks for each USB Mass Storage device to

 /dev/disk/by-id/

I’m sure there are less messy solutions but this is how I did it. Assuming you have the same problem I did some time ago….

Problem:

  • You have >1 USB Mass Storage device.

  • You want to guarantee that each device always has a consistent mount point.
  • You cannot guarantee that they will always be inserted in the same order

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