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Give external USB (ext4) drive a short name

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When I plug in my USB hard drive that is formatted with an ext4 partition, the drive is mounted as expected, but at a path that contains the long UUID of the disk; something like:

/media/a1f2e5f6-a9bc-dd2a-c2c9-1f48c39b39ee

Is there a way to automount the drive at a path that is shorter and more snappy? e.g.

/media/my_external_hd

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answered 2 Years ago bleger · Accepted Answer

Give the filesystem on your disk a label with the e2label command. For example: if your filesystem is on /dev/hdc1, run sudo e2label /dev/hdc1 my_external_hd. I think you may need to unmount the filesystem with sudo umount /media/a1f2e5f6-a9bc-dd2a-c2c9-1f48c39b39ee before this will work.

To find out what device your mounted filesystem is on, the command mount will give you a list.