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Subject: Re: Short name for USB
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:21:58 +0100
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On 2023-02-09 19:14, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:05:37 -0500, Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2023-02-09 18:54, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2023-02-09 16:39, db wrote:
>>>> On 09.02.2023 11.55, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2023-02-09 11:28, db wrote:
>>>>>> When I want to operate on a USB, it has a long unwieldy
>>>>>> name. How do I give it a short name? I have forgotten
>>>>>> how to do it. Alias? Or what?
>>>>>
>>>>> USB what? A keyboard? A mouse? A scanner? A printer? A modem?
>>>>>
>>>>   Sigh... a USB stick, which appears e.g. as "/media/.../KINGSTON".
>>>> How do I give it a shorter name?
>>>
>>> It depends on what distro you are using.
>>
>> With some distros, creating an entry in fstab (noauto,user) works.
> 
> Another technique is to assign a label to the file system on the usb stick.
> The label will be used in the directory name used for the mountpoint 
> instead of using the uuid.

Right.

I forgot that, because all my filesystems have labels :-)

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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.