On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:08:41PM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which > > drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to > > read label on the drive to say /dev/sdX. It would be far easier then > > checking a long serial number, especially if it's hard to read and you'd > > need to take each HDD out to check :) > > I think the allocating of /dev/sdX depends on the order you plug the > drives into the machine. > so it changes over reconfiguring of the hardwares, which makes your > labels useless. > > can someone confirm this? > I had something like this happen on a Lenny amd64 system. The drive identifications (/dev/sdX) switched after I performed a kernel upgrade. If I booted the old kernel, they were back to normal. That's when I learned about UUID's...
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