On Samstag 27 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:28:59 Alan E. Davis wrote: > > Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The > > device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the > > (what I presume to be) new scheme, with all devices names as /dev/sdX . > > Default kernel names are like that deliberately. The driver assigns a > unique name in the order that devices are found, and the name depends only > on whatever the author decided to give it. If you use the modern ATA > subsystem to drive your disks, they get called sd*. The older drivers > non-SCSI still call disks hd*. > > This way you get a naming scheme that is guaranteed to be unique, but with > no other guarantees whatsoever (not even consistency). It's the simplest > thing that could possibly work (and a very sane engineering choice > actually). > > If that doesn't suit your needs, you can customize it with udev rules, or > mount by device UUID, or mount by filesystem label.
or you create a software raid setup and mount mdX. Since the kernel autoassembles the stuff you don't have to care about sdX or hdX or whateverX ;)
