Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:14:40
Message-Id: CADPrc82rHZRsjzT6F0H=j-nF_sA3iA+6YHMf6yvhhNJTdos75g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda by Grant
1 On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which conflicts
4 > with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running
5 > Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will work
6 > well with any USB disks that happen to also be attached?
7 >
8 > crw------- 1 root root 252, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0
9 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1
10 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p1
11 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p2
12
13 Isn't so much easier to use labels? Those are automatically available
14 on /dev/disk/by-label, and you can use them in basically any type of
15 partition, including Windows (NTFS and vfat) and swaps.
16
17 Regards.
18 --
19 Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
20 Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
21 Departamento de Matemáticas
22 Facultad de Ciencias
23 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>