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On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>: |
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> > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: |
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> >> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to |
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> >> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 |
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> >> motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE |
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> >> drivers. This is what I have currently: |
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> >> |
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> >> hda Actual hard drive OS on this |
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> >> hdb Actual hard drive Not in use |
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> >> hdc Actual hard drive home partition |
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> >> hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner. |
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> >> sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff. |
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> > |
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> > The advice by the other posters to label your disks is a good one. I'm |
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> > using labels too. Not sure why I didn't think to mention it :P |
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> > |
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> > Applying labels to your filesystems is trivial. Simply use the e2label |
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> > utility (it's in the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package and installed by default, |
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> > so there's nothing new to emerge). For example, if your hda1 is your |
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> > root partition and your hda2 your swap, you can label them like this: |
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> > |
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> > e2label /dev/hda1 GentooRoot |
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> > e2label /dev/hda2 GentooSwap |
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> > |
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> > Note: hda1, not just hda. You are labeling the filesystem on a |
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> > partition, not the whole drive. |
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> > |
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> > After you label all your filesystems, you simply modify your /etc/fstab |
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> > like this: |
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> > |
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> > Before: |
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> > /dev/hda1 / ext4 noatime 0 1 |
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> > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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> > |
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> > After: |
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> > /dev/disk/by-label/GentooRoot / ext4 noatime 0 1 |
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> > /dev/disk/by-label/GentooSwap none swap sw 0 0 |
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> > |
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> > That is, you simply change "/dev/blah" to "/dev/disk/by-label/DriveLabel" |
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> > and that's it. |
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> |
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> Or you can do it by uuid, all the info you need can be picked from this |
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> output: |
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> $ ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -l |
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> Then just add lines to fstab like this: |
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> UUID="6ea2b219-0bcc-4c90-9960-82a9659e6d0e" / ext4 noatime 0 1 |
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True, except that for mere mortals, Labels are slightly easier to read and |
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understand :) |
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And that, I find, is less prone to mistakes. |
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