I have updated the article about labeling in Linux to include some special stuff for Ubuntu and Debian since they use UUIDs instead of LABELs. Check it out and get to adding and mounting those drives!
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Labeling Hard Drives In Linux
Recently I got another external USB hard drive for backing up data. I plugged it in and everything was great except for one thing. The drive came up with the name (label) that Seagate put on there by default. So I was looking a drive mounted at “/media/FreeAgent Drive”, ugh, that sucks. So, I did a little digging and came across this awesome article that covers the many different ways to label your drive. It was interesting that it all basically comes down to your file system, but this article has most everything covered. Check it out …