On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:05:26 -0700, ghe wrote: > David Schmidt wrote: > > > I might be wrong but perhaps e2label is what you are looking for. > > Been there; done that :-) > > That would work to get the machine booted, as would using the UUIDs. But > I really want my system disk to be sda so the /dev filesystem will work > as expected with tools like dd. (I almost scribbled all over the wrong > disk once because of this.)
I think you can use the device node symlinks in /dev/disk/by-label/ or /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to avoid ambiguities, or you can write your own udev rules to generate other symlinks in /dev that always point to the right partitions. AFAIK, the present architecture of the Linux kernel does not allow for the /dev/sdX nodes themselves to be well-defined in the manner that you would prefer. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
