Force External Drives To Mount To the Same Point

I recently rebooted my computer and normally I have my 2 internal drives and 2 external drives all mounted manually through the fstab file. If you don’t know how to do this, I wrote about mounting NTFS drives a while back. If you need help, just leave me a comment below.

Anyway, what happened was one of my external drives mounted, but to the wrong point. It is suppose to mount as /dev/sdg1 and instead mounted as /dev/sdh1. This probably isn’t a big problem for most people, but I have playlists that reference audio and video files from the external drive. Since Ubuntu mounted it to a different location, the playlist thinks the files don’t exist. The fix is fairly simple, here’s how to do it.

1. Open a terminal window and type ’sudo fdisk -l’ to find the location of the drive
   
2. Now type ‘udevinfo -q env -n /dev/sdc1′ (of course, replace /dev/sdc1 with your drive location you got above)
3. You’re looking for the line that has UUID=
   
4. Right click this and choose ‘Copy’ in the terminal window
   
5. Now type ’sudo gedit /etc/fstab’ in your terminal window and look for the line where you are mounting your external drive
   

If you want to test it out, simple type ’sudo umount -a’ in the terminal and then type ’sudo mount -a’. All your drives should mount correctly from now on.

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