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View submission: Naming your Flash Drives and External HDD...
Well you do you, but it's not something I do...
On actual Amigas at the time I primarily used volume names instead. `Work:`, `Games:`, `MySamples:`, `MyCoolDisk:` and so on anyway. Rather seldom accessed something as `DF0:` or `DH1:` etc. though of course one *could*.
It was a pleasant feature of AmigaOS at the time that you *didn't* always have to refer to something just by which physical drive it happened to be in, like those sad MS-DOS `A:`, `B:`, `C:` drive-letters[1]. You just put a disk in any of your disk drives and referred to the disk by the disk's volume name, not the particular drive it happened to be in that time.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment
So, well, I just similarly give my modern removable media usb keys etc. names / volume labels like `MySamples` or the like too?
Depends somewhat on details of your Linux setup but typically nowadays on a desktop Linux box you already have some version of the `udisks`[2] removable storage manager thingy lurking. That may well then mount/automount your usb key with a volume label `MySamples` just at something like `/media/yourusername/MySamples` or similar by default. So again, available at its volume name (or perhaps uuid), and not just precisely which usb bus and port you plugged it into - that would be if anything more annoying than back when we just had 1 to 4 floppy drives not a whole bunch of usb ports...
2: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks/
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