On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Larry Colen scripsit: > > I just had to do an OS install and when the machine came back to me my > > mirrored drive had gone from being G to F. > > That was fun....... > > It's too bad you couldn't just change a line in /etc/fstab. People say > that Windows is so much easier than Unix, but if something like that > happened on a Linux box, it would be a 30 second job to remap the > drive back to where it was.
Well, properly, on a unix you use labels, so the drive knows what it's called and the OS asks it and there you go. The downside is that it's far from obvious which of the external drives is which unless you colour code them or something of that sort. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
