Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:13:23 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support) |
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Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>>> Easiest is to use labels. Old ide will keep hda,b,c,d constant >>>> providing you have interfaces using the legacy IDE port mappings (0x1f0 >>>> and 0x170). Libata doesn't do that as pretty much every distribution >>>> had >>>> already switched to volume labels, and the user space can do the job >>>> far >>>> better than the kernel - especially as the newer devices with modern >>>> interfaces don't have the old BIOS/DOS legacy ideas any more. >>>> >>>> Mount by label also means you can flip back and forth between the >>>> different drivers and kernel revisions. >>>> >>>> Alan >>>> >> It comes with one :) >> # xfs_admin -u /dev/sdd2 >> UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8 >> >> Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the >> UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it. >> >> Justin. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xfs mailing list >> xfs@oss.sgi.com >> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >> > > One final question, without udev, how does one determine the UUID of a > non-XFS > partition, e.g., swap? > One uses blkid. Which suggests that you can solve your name problem by not using names and switching to UUID.
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