[Part two, having made my train connection with 8 seconds to 
spare.]

Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> But wait! There's the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree, I did not notice it 
> until
> now! :-)

Yes!  That's what I meant!  Thank you.  I'll be sure to use the 
udev terminology for this in future, it's confusing enough as it 
is.

Thanks,

T G-R