On 2007/12/07 09:54 (GMT+0100) Morten Bjørnsvik apparently typed: > My problem is If I leave the esata connected drives on during a reboot, > they come up as sda,sdb forcing the internals to become sdc,sdd. How can > this be avoided,
There may be motherboard BIOS setting(s) to do it. It seems if BIOS were smart, they would default to external connectors = last found. Are your external ports on a PCI card? Are your internals actually PATA, being supported by the OS as SCSI via libata? > On redhat we earlier used mount labels, but I've not > been using it for years. AFAIK, all current and recent Linux distros support mount by-label. Fedora 7-up installation enforces mount by-label. IMO by-label is far superior in user friendliness to mounting by-UUID or device ID, keeping fstab comprehensible and more compact. I mount my 10.2 root by-label, but all other partitions by device name. So far I've only used eSATA for full partition backups, and so haven't needed to mount any eSATA partitions. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
