Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Name of SCSI Device | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:13:24 -0700 (MST) |
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You write: > If we install a SCSI hard disk drive, with ID3, an nothing on ID1 or ID2, > will be sda. If we install a new disk on ID1, the drive that before was > sda now change the name to sdb. > > Why the name of hard disk drive of SCSI Controller are not fixed? > ID0=sda > ID1=sdb > ID2=sdc
There are not enough major/minor numbers to do this.
> Then, it is possible that we must change /etc/fstab
If you are using ext2 (or ext3), it is possible to mount by filesystem LABEL or UUID. See man pages for e2label/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/mount(8)/fstab(5).
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