On Wednesday 18 April 2007 20:03, scsijon wrote: > At 10:20 AM 4/18/2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >The Sunday 2007-04-15 at 20:59 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 April 2007 19:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > I'm sure that's being addressed. The fstab and grub will not break, > > > > at least. > > > > > > The default fstab doesn't look like it was before in 10.3 Alpha. > > > There is no /dev/sdX, but long disk name ending with part1,2,3 etc. > > > >Like this one? > > > >/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620A_5QF2M56F-part15 > > > >I mount some of my partitions that way (in /etc/cryptotab), and some by > >label (in /etc/fstab): > > > >LABEL=320_boot1 /boot ext2 noatime,acl,user_xattr 0 0 > > > >both systems are independent of how or where the disk is mounted. > > > > > >- -- > >Cheers, > > Carlos E. R. > > Carlos (and others (?aj)), can you check / could you check / have you > checked? > > if you had the drive listed above die and had to use a new drive > and reload from a backup (simple to do to here) > > ?would the id part "5QF2M56F" have to be changed (I suspect this is > the drive's internal I.D.) for it to work?
By now you should have used YaST to include drive in system and you have exact naming already in a fstab, but to avoid problems with backup scripts, I would use second form LABEL=<drive_label> as all you have to do is to write label to a new drive, format it and it will be ready for restore. ... -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
