nope, wrong version so this was not the solution. Sorry I can't be of any help you.
When I boot with a thumb drive plugged in, remove it, and replug it,
the sda1 icon changes to sda.
I can still mount it by umount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
but the desktop icon still won't work.
I have persistent home dir (.img root etc)
Can I fix this so I always have an sda1 icon that works?
Thanks.
nope, wrong version so this was not the solution. Sorry I can't be of any help you.

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