On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Ivan Avery Frey via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 23:31 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: >> > PS: A few years ago I noticed an interesting behaviour in Linux. When >> > rsyncing hundreds of GB from the eSata to the USB mounted drive I found >> > the >> > file system to become unreliable and unmountable. A workaround that I >> > now >> > follow is to add an "--bwlimit=15000" in the rsync command, which >> > ensures >> > that the eSata doesn't get too far ahead of the USB drive. May be >> > completely >> > unnecessary now.. >> >> That's because USB gets disconnected and reconnected. So, /dev/sdc >> becomes /dev/sdd in the middle of copying. > > > I had an issue with a motherboard, sometimes a drive would come up sda or > sdb. So I stuck labels on my partitions and used those in my fstab. >
If I understand correctly the present 'correct' way to refer to a drive is using its uuid. Any other method is recommended to be deprecated. (From linux-raid group notes and conversations.) Dee --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk