Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

2009-12-19 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Use the label function in fstab regards Steven Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Jason Filippou wrote: I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure

Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

2009-12-19 Thread Glenn English
> >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Jason Filippou > >wrote: > >So I was > > just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard > > drive and mount it on /dev/sdb Careful! Define "new hard drive". What appears where in /dev is a function of your BIOS, the kernel, and u

Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

2009-12-19 Thread Mark
>On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Jason Filippou >wrote: >So I was > just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard > drive and mount it on /dev/sdb If it's an internal hdd, all you need do is edit /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sda to a directory of your choice automatically

Re: Mounting new hard disk in /dev/sdb

2009-12-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jason Filippou wrote: > I recently installed a new SATA hard drive on my desktop system and I > noticed that Squeeze had, by default, mounted it in /dev/sda. This means > that recently, due to the popular GRUB failure that caused everybody > (including myself) a lot of grief, my Debian disk rescue