There was a website that I was using an external hard drive as its storage.
After installing another external drive or two, the first hard drive was being identified
with a different file directory that then things did not work correctly.
Fortunately, the Top Coder, Linus Torvalds, his great Linux operating system, and the world’s
opensource incredibly fantastic Linux, there’s a solution to this.
This will list your storage drives on your computer.
lsblk
Ok, now.
The /etc/fstab file on the Linux operating system allows us to set the UUID of a hard drive.
Run the command
sudo blkid -o list
This will list the UUID of the hard drives on the computer that Linux is running on.
Make a new entry to the fstab file, for example the following statement.
UUID=12345abc-67ef-89gh-0123-4567890avzz /media/disk1 ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
Change the UUID with it’s actual entry from the blkid command.
Check that the /media/disk1 folder is created.
This will attempt to mount the storage drives listed in the /etc/fstab file.
mount -a
This post will ensure that adding or removing any external hard drives will not change a drive that is being used,
for example, a website.
Happy Coding!