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From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>
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Subject: Stable device names for USB disks?
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I seem to recall there was a neat trick involving GEOM to allow USB
disks to be mounted in the same place every time the system boots but I
can't find it.   Right now my system (5.3 RELEASE) seems to being a
random da? device for each drive that changes with every reboot -
clearly not a good situation.

Does anybody have a fix for this?


John