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On Samstag 27 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:28:59 Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> > Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The |
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> > device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the |
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> > (what I presume to be) new scheme, with all devices names as /dev/sdX . |
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> Default kernel names are like that deliberately. The driver assigns a |
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> unique name in the order that devices are found, and the name depends only |
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> on whatever the author decided to give it. If you use the modern ATA |
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> subsystem to drive your disks, they get called sd*. The older drivers |
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> non-SCSI still call disks hd*. |
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> This way you get a naming scheme that is guaranteed to be unique, but with |
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> no other guarantees whatsoever (not even consistency). It's the simplest |
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> thing that could possibly work (and a very sane engineering choice |
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> actually). |
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> If that doesn't suit your needs, you can customize it with udev rules, or |
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> mount by device UUID, or mount by filesystem label. |
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or you create a software raid setup and mount mdX. Since the kernel |
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autoassembles the stuff you don't have to care about sdX or hdX or whateverX |
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;) |
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