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Dale writes: |
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> Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still |
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> use e2fsprogs to change those? |
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No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. |
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> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA |
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> drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them |
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> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is |
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> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use? |
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Don't know. But even if so the result is not cecessarily accurate. |
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My two SATA drives were sd[ab], but when I added two PATA drives those got |
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these names, and the SATA ones became sa[cd]. But even this changes, with |
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a kernel derived from GRML, the PATA ones were sd[bc], and the SATA ones |
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sd[ad]. Weird, huh? And things become even mor eunpredictable when I have |
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USB drives plugged in during boot. So I also suggest using labels or |
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UUIDs. |
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My own method is yet another one. As I have everything on LVM (except for |
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the /boot partitino, which is on an USB stick), my drives are identified |
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by their volume group. /dev/weird is the system drive, /dev/weird2 is the |
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identical backup drive. This way I do not have any /dev/sdX in either |
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fstab or grub.conf. And when the system drive fails, I vgrename wird2 to |
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weird, and then the backup drive will become the system drive. |
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Wonko |
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