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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2011-10-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not |
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>> detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and |
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>> /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong places |
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>> (/dev/sda seems consistent, but I don't know why). |
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> I still don't know what changed to cause disks ordering to become |
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> non-deterministic. I recently upgraded from a single-core CPU to a |
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> dual-core CPU. Would that do it? |
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>> What's the recommended way to fix this? |
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> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are |
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> for. Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them |
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> a go. |
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They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and |
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therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop |
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environment, they look nice in file managers. |
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Good luck. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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