Amarok running in ubuntu Intrepid, music collection is in an external hard drive, normally identified in /dev/sdb1, hal/dbus will assign it /media/disk, collection's folder are well set up in amarok,

BUT,

when ,after login, the external drive is still off and I insert a pendrive, it occupies /dev/sdb1---> /media/disk, then I switch on the external drive, hal/dbus puts it in /dev/sdb2---> /media/disk-1, after this I launch amarok and it cannot find, obviously, any collection..

I know it's actually a problem with /etc/fstab in connection with hal/dbus and mount-manager, but I didn't yet figured out how to solve it...any experienced user of amarok AND ubuntu has any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

"Dynamic Collection" (the feature you probably need) isn't yet implemented in Amarok 2.0.x, but is meant to be included in 2.1.

Did you try labeling your hard drive? This would mount it on its label name and might solve your problem. I have no entry in /etc/fstab for the usb drives right now, but I label all my external drives (HDs or sticks, whatever) and that seems to do the trick.

ok, how do I actually label the external drive?

my /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            
proc            /proc          proc    defaults        0      0
# /dev/hda1
#UUID=380f9968-62e7-401c-9f77-ba75123f1359 /              ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      1
# /dev/hda4
#UUID=3f3bbd2d-8e19-4f3e-8dce-6762b2717d16 /boot          ext3    defaults        0      2
# /dev/hda3
#UUID=3dda99cd-3cb4-462f-8977-cef8b1f1f61c /home          ext3    defaults        0      2
# /dev/hda2
#UUID=8d045d26-8fdb-4efa-9d9d-b424fb42d967 none            swap    sw              0      0
/dev/sda1 / ext3    defaults,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback 0      1
/dev/sda4 /boot ext3    defaults,relatime        0      2
/dev/sda2      /dati  ext3    defaults,relatime        0      2
/dev/sda6 /dati2 ext3    defaults,relatime        0      2
/dev/sda5 none swap    sw              0      0
#/dev/cdrom      /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto    0      0
#/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0   

I found this tutorial showing how to rename a drive. It depends on the filesystem you have installed on the drive:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

Hope this helps