Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>:
> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
>>
>> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to
>> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0
>> motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE
>> drivers. This is what I have currently:
>>
>> hda Actual hard drive OS on this
>> hdb Actual hard drive Not in use
>> hdc Actual hard drive home partition
>> hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner.
>> sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff.
>
> The advice by the other posters to label your disks is a good one.  I'm
> using labels too.  Not sure why I didn't think to mention it :P
>
> Applying labels to your filesystems is trivial.  Simply use the e2label
> utility (it's in the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package and installed by default, so
> there's nothing new to emerge).  For example, if your hda1 is your root
> partition and your hda2 your swap, you can label them like this:
>
>  e2label /dev/hda1 GentooRoot
>  e2label /dev/hda2 GentooSwap
>
> Note: hda1, not just hda.  You are labeling the filesystem on a partition,
> not the whole drive.
>
> After you label all your filesystems, you simply modify your /etc/fstab like
> this:
>
> Before:
> /dev/hda1  /  ext4  noatime  0 1
> /dev/hda2  none  swap  sw  0 0
>
> After:
> /dev/disk/by-label/GentooRoot  /  ext4  noatime  0 1
> /dev/disk/by-label/GentooSwap  none  swap  sw 0 0
>
> That is, you simply change "/dev/blah" to "/dev/disk/by-label/DriveLabel"
> and that's it.
>
>
>
Or you can do it by uuid, all the info you need can be picked from this output:

$ ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -l

Then just add lines to fstab like this:

UUID="6ea2b219-0bcc-4c90-9960-82a9659e6d0e" / ext4 noatime 0 1
-- 
Jesús Guerrero Botella