On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to > > push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 > > motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE > > drivers. This is what I have currently: > > > > hda Actual hard drive OS on this > > hdb Actual hard drive Not in use > > hdc Actual hard drive home partition > > hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner. > > sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff. > > > > > > So, hda has the Gentoo OS on it and hdc is my /hone directory. I have > > videos, mp3's and various other data on sda. Currently hdb is not being > > used, since for those who keep up with my threads would know, it is the > > one that is terribly slow. Something along the lines of 10Mbs/sec or > > something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right > > now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/ > > You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat > power, heat the case and make noise :-/ > > > My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become > > sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde. > > Would that be a logical expectation? > > I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth. > > Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you > won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to > change your /etc/fstab and grub conf.
Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure /etc/fstab to use those. Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names. -- Joost
