On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 03:51:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > > > > If you use /dev/sd??, then I wish you the best of luck the next time the > > kernel's disk discovery order changes. Because it's not guaranteed to > > remain the same forever, and so when it changes, your system won't be > > bootable. :-) > > I don't think so. I don't use UUID or LABEL in fstab, but /dev/sd?? > would only change if I did somthing with fdisk like deleting a partition > and splitting two in it's place. I suppose deleting an extended > partition could do it also. > > > I will also note that using /dev/disk/by-id/ links allowed me to survive > > the IDE -> libata transition (/dev/hd* to /dev/sd*) with zero userspace > > changes. > > I don't recall running into that problem. ISTR that hdx mapped to sdx > without issue. > For people with only one disk, it isn't a problem. For everyone else, "do you feel lucky?". Been there, got the T-shirt. Now, I use e2label on that machine, with LABEL= in the fstab.
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