On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Thomas Backlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you follow raid devel list you will soon learn that they dont recommend > trusting the /dev/sd* naming either as it is by > no means static... :) > > depending on your hw, they may for example hange place if you happend > to have a usb disk plugged at boot and so on. > > so the thing to check is for example what disk is mapped as > /dev/disk/by-id/* > > > where you can match on actual disc serial number and so on... > then you can be sure wich disk is failing / has failed.. Great advice. I'll make sure the drive's serial numbers are visible without removal and then use ls /dev/disk/by-id/ to make sure I get the right one, if/when the time ever comes... Thanks again -- RJ
