On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:15 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > > > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb > > > etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. > > > > > > To prevent this from happening I 've added 'disk/by id' to fstab > > > (because the disks uuid were also changing) and 'boot from uuid' to my > > > menu.lst I wonder: > > > > > > -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? > > > -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? > > > > I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to UUID) ;) > > > > $ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst > > # kopt=root=LABEL=sid ro vga=0x368 > > > > You have to run 'update-grub' after changing this > > > > $ grep sid /etc/fstab > > LABEL=sid / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime,commit=600 0 > > 1 > > > > For ext2/3 you set the labels with e2label. > > > can I siggusting sticking to label, easier to read and also doing a rm > /etc/blkid.tab >
What do you mean with 'rm /etc/blkid.tab'? Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
