Change mount point

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nr91

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Hi,

Since a couple of weeks I have an external disk connected to my Mac (OS Tiger). The first mount point it had was /Volumes/External 1, then it changed (after a couple of days/reboots) to /Volumes/External 2 and now it is /Volumes/External 3. Is there a way to change the 'name' because now I always have to change the location of my files.

greetings,
nr91
 
I am not sure what you are refering to - on my external disk, the names after /Volumes are whatever i named the individual partitions:

/Volumes $l
total 8
11329 drwxrwxrwt 11 root admin 374 Dec 27 17:52 .
2 drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin 1530 Dec 26 14:41 ..
2 drwxrwxr-t 36 root admin 1326 Jan 14 2006 10.4 Server
2 drwxr-xr-x 12 j j 510 Sep 30 15:37 4
2 drwxr-xr-x 10 j j 442 Dec 25 08:22 A
2 drwxr-xr-x 43 j j 1564 Dec 25 10:49 B1
2 drwxr-xr-x 41 j j 1496 Sep 30 14:26 B2
2 drwxr-xr-x 37 j j 1360 Oct 5 05:00 Powerbook
2 drwxr-xr-x 17 j j 680 Dec 25 08:22 S1
4056452 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Dec 26 14:41 Tiger1 -> /
2 drwxrwxr-t 40 root admin 1462 Jan 17 00:31 iBook

They should not just change on their own....
 
I will try to clearify.

I can rename the disk to whatever I want, no problem. But when I restart my mac, the os somethimes thinks the hd is a new disk so gives it a higher number . The referals for my files are then wrong.

So the real problem is that the os sees the disk as new, although it is still the same disk as the day before.

You can see what I mean in 'Disk Utility'.
 
It mostly happens if the drive loses contact shortly. I sometimes found my external drive (called "whatever") to suddenly be there twice, i.e. it wasn't unmounted correctly, Mac OS X didn't remove /Volumes/whatever and thus when now mounting "whatever" it had to create a new entry. So...

1.) Unmount the drive.
2.) sudo rm -rf the remaining entries for the drive from /Volumes/ in Terminal.

After that, it should work correctly. Just have to remember to cleanly unmount the drive (not just rip the cable out). If it _still_ does create more than one entry and add numbers to the name, something could be wrong with the cable... Or even a permissions issue with /Volumes/?
 
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