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P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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> Is there a way to fix the drive assignment for sata drives? |
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> Currently in the fstab the boot and root partitions are set and |
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> working great. Once a new sata drive connected, the drive assignments |
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> change. Initially the / (root) is /dev/sda2. Once another sata drive |
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> is added the / (root) becomes say /dev/sdb2. |
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> Is there any way that this can be fixed even when more drives are |
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> added or removed? |
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Use disk labels to symbolically name partitions so that you don't need |
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to use explicit special device names. |
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`tune2fs -L <label name>' adds a disk label to a partition (at least for |
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ext2/3 file systems). |
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Then in /etc/fstab use entries along these lines (assuming you've |
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labeled the boot partition 'BOOT' and the root partition 'ROOT'...) : |
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#------------------- (example) ----------------- |
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LABEL=BOOT /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 |
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LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults 0 1 |
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LABEL=fortknox /precious_data ext3 defaults,ro 0 1 |
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# use LABELs for pluggable media since the special devices may change |
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# MS DOS disk labels must be 11 characters and all upper case |
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LABEL=Backup /mnt/Backup auto |
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defaults,users,noauto 0 0 |
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#------------------ (/example) ----------------- |
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I'd guess that there are ways to add labels to non-ext2/3 file systems |
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(reiserfs, xfs, ...) but I haven't tried. |
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As always: read `man tune2fs' and `man mount'. |
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BobS |
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PS. This isn't an amd64 issue. |
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