On Tuesday 12 August 2008 02:04, Aniruddha wrote: > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb > etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. > > To prevent this from happening I 've added 'disk/by id' to fstab > (because the disks uuid were also changing) and 'boot from uuid' to my > menu.lst I wonder:
The UUID's belong to the filesystems, not the disks. I've never heard of them changing between reboots. Use the blkid command to see them. Here's my fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID="f94f5a03-67ca-4932-a9d5-2328776c6285" /boot ext3 defaults UUID="8a4fb183-7092-4041-af8f-41158e356df1" / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID="4833592d-6afa-46c2-8c7c-35b85c7ac4ea" none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,utf8 0 0 # backup HDD UUID="a38d9a47-e26d-4e0f-8c73-24f30decd052" /mnt/backup_hdd ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0 > > -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? > -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? > > Regards, > > Aniruddha -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]