On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM, John Mort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > drives, and eventually figured out that I had been mounting it as > > device /dev/sdd1, but since I removed that IDE drive it had become > > /dev/sdc1. Is it common for hard drives to migrate from device to > > device as the environment changes? I had been under the impression > > Yes, it is common and expected - although, not by you and many others. > :-) If you're using udev, which you probably are, then you should use > /dev/disk/by-uuid (or one of its siblings) to mount partitions. Save > yourself the woe. Also check out > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html for > more information about udev, writing udev rules, etc. > > I'm not very fond of the /etc/fstab ^UUID= method, myself. :-) >
Users of ext2/ext3 can use the e2label command and them /dev/disk/by-label/whatever if one wishes to have a more human readable label of partitions. Just another option... -- Bruce A. Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
