On 10/03/2011 12:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards: >> 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). >> >> What's the recommended way to fix this? >> > > Mount by UUID or label. In /etc/fstab, specify UUID=foo or LABEL=bar > instead of /dev/sdx1. You can current UUIDs and labels with `ls -l > /dev/disk/by-uuid` and `ls -l /dev/disk/by-label`, respectively.
Or, if they are ext, use tune2fs -l. One of its output lines will be: Filesystem UUID: 40ea622d-8265-4498-bc89-0c0f9020dffb
