Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:03:21 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: Drive name slips... |
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Hi,
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:26:52 -0500, Chris Meadors <chris@hereintown.net> said:
> Where devfs saved me, is I run up to 3 SCA drives in my machine. They > have SCSI IDs 0, 1, and 2. Sometimes I'll pull out one of them and > boot my machine without it. Pulling ID 2 is no big deal, /dev/sda and > /dev/sdb are still ID 0 and 1. But if I pull ID 1 (I never pull ID 0, > cause it is my boot drive, but still I have the option to) ID 0 is > /dev/sda, but ID 2 becomes /dev/sdb. That just causes too much > confusion. With devfs I can put the physical location of the drives > (including their ID) in my fstab and not have to worry about which > drives are in the machine.
You don't necessarily need devfs for that. You can mount ext2 filesystems based on their volume label or UUID, rather than by their location.
--Stephen
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