Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale]

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

It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho.  It 
would be so much easier.  I didn't see anything in the man pages tho.

I looked into LVM a good while ago.  It's just to much for me to keep up 
with since I just have a desktop system here.  It has its good points 
but just way overkill for what I have here.

It seems as time goes on, things get more complicated.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)