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usb drive reconnect after power interruption



On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:45:09PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I have a VMware guest OS on a usb2 external drive, and a short time ago 
> the office lost power for a couple minutes. When power came back on, my 
> laptop saw the usb drive as a brand new drive, and won't mount it under 
> its old id. Meanwhile, the system is holding on to the old id so it can 
> eventually flush its I/O to disk.
> 
> Is there any way I can tell the system that the usb drive I'm plugging 
> in is the same one it needs to flush the data to? Or is that data just 
> lost forever at this point?

At this point, you may be hosed. I'm not sure that specifying
mount points by volume id would help in future, but it might.

 mount -L label  or
 mount -U UUID

-dsr-




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