On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not >> detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and >> /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong places >> (/dev/sda seems consistent, but I don't know why). > > I still don't know what changed to cause disks ordering to become > non-deterministic. I recently upgraded from a single-core CPU to a > dual-core CPU. Would that do it? > >> What's the recommended way to fix this? > > After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are > for. Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them > a go.
They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop environment, they look nice in file managers. Good luck. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
