Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:16:43 -0700 (MST) |
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Christoph writes: > In article <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103141026460.532128-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> you wrote: > > drivers change their detection schemes; and changes in the kernel can > > change the order in which devices are assigned names. > > > > For example, the DAC960(?) drivers changed their order of > > detecting controllers, and I did _not_ have fun, given that the machine in > > question had about 40 disks to deal with, spread across two controllers. > > Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name. > P.S. UUID= work, too - but I prefer a human-readable label...
Works OK for ext2 only. I'm still waiting on the reiserfs folks to add a UUID and LABEL to their superblock.
However, for raw partitions, you will need to use LVM to get rename-safe device labels. You probably want LVM anyways, if you have 40 disks...
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