Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:28:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support) |
| |
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?
$ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-01-25 01:54 203fcd30-4e56-40e9-a8e5-93ddc8eb536a -> ../../md0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-25 01:54 2ef862e1-cf78-4065-a205-d1784716d633 -> ../../sdd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-01-25 01:54 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8 -> ../../sdd2
p254:~# find /proc/|grep -i uuid /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid p254:~# find /sys/|grep -i uuid p254:~#
| |