[Solved] USB disk always gets new device name

[dr.nil]

I only noticed yesterday that any USB device I plug in gets a new device name - sdb, sdc, sdd etc. After a reboot the cycle starts over at sdc (sda and sdb are the fixed disks in my machine).

I feel that this behaviour is not expected but have no clue what's wrong or how to fix it. I'm suspecting udev but my /etc/udev/rules.d looks pretty innocent. Unlike for e.g. network cards, no persistent rules seem to be added.

Help!

[Hypnos]

That is the normal behavior. This is why I mount my USB backup disk by its volume label; from my /etc/fstab:

[dr.nil]

Thanks for the info. I went with udev rules and everything looks OK now.

[Hypnos]

Great! Please add "[SOLVED]" to the thread title.
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