Re: Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de writes: [...] > > and of course, if you are using a desktop environment and NetworkManager > > or systemd-networkd, it's probably better to go with the flow and let > > them do. > > About year ago none of them was ab

Re: Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Kamil Jońca
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:30:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [following up on myself, bad style, I know] > >> For my laptop, I very much prefer to say "sudo ifup eth0" than to >> say "sudo ifup en0ps&&@*#!☠" thankyouverymuch :) > > and of course, if you are usin

Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:30:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [following up on myself, bad style, I know] > For my laptop, I very much prefer to say "sudo ifup eth0" than to > say "sudo ifup en0ps&&@*#!☠" thankyouverymuch :) and of course, if you are using a desktop environment and NetworkMa

Re: Ethernet device names change Bullseye => Bookworm. How to assign unchanging name to device?

2023-06-20 Thread Markus Schönhaber
20.06.23, 08:36 +0200, Rick Thomas: I've been upgrading my machines Bullseye => Bookworm recently. In a few of these upgrades, the name of the ethernet device changed. (E.g. enP2p32s15f0 => enP2p0s15f0) This required changes to /etc/network/interfaces in order to start up the interface. T

Ethernet device names change Bullseye => Bookworm. How to assign unchanging name to device?

2023-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I've been upgrading my machines Bullseye => Bookworm recently. In a few of these upgrades, the name of the ethernet device changed. (E.g. enP2p32s15f0 => enP2p0s15f0) This required changes to /etc/network/interfaces in order to start up the interface. This is only a minor inconvenience (thou

Re: ALSA device names.

2021-11-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Nov 2021 at 23:04:13 (+0100), deloptes wrote: > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > OK, although > > surround21:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > > and > > surround40:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > > aren't atomic names.  Is the syntax and semantics explained in > > documentation? > > > > No surround22, surround23 ... sur

Re: ALSA device names.

2021-11-09 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > surround21:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > and > surround40:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > aren't atomic names.  Is the syntax and semantics explained in > documentation? > > No surround22, surround23 ... surround39 evident here. How does ALSA > derive or find the names and numbers? you hopefully

ALSA device names.

2021-11-09 Thread peter
Ref. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/msg01112.html Subject: Re: Persistent names for audio devices. From: David Wright Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:35:11 -0500 Message-id: <20210930033511.gc22...@axis.corp> References: <_Vy48xSpy3r0uj8kBgbIiS_l-GGEeoinqJc5I64K4YfKpq

Re: device names - so much escaping

2021-04-05 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, April 05, 2021 08:36:04 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 5/04/21 11:48 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > >> /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home > >> > >> /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home > >> > >> Apr 5 07:06:25 backup system

Re: device names - so much escaping

2021-04-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 05.04.2021 17:36, Richard Hector wrote: On 5/04/21 11:48 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home Apr  5 07:06:25 backup systemd[1]: dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\

Re: device names - so much escaping

2021-04-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 5/04/21 11:48 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home Apr 5 07:06:25 backup systemd[1]: dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2d\x2drh\x2d\x2drm1\x2d\x2dsrv.device: Job

Re: device names - so much escaping

2021-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home > /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home > Apr 5 07:06:25 backup systemd[1]: > dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2d\x2drh\x2d\x2drm1\x2d\x2dsrv.device: > Job > dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2

device names - so much escaping

2021-04-05 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I use LVM quite a lot. > richard@backup:~$ sudo lvs|wc -l > 140 The trouble is, things like device mapper seem to involve lots of name translations. So the volume I call d-rh-rm1-home (for dirvish backups of /home on rh-rm1 (my (rh) first (1) redmine (rm) server)) on vg-backu

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Aug 2017 at 09:22:56 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:20:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote: > > > > > > But what has that to do with having the proper entry's > > > > in /etc/resolv.conf? Whose active lines ar

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:20:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote: > > > > But what has that to do with having the proper entry's > > > in /etc/resolv.conf? Whose active lines are: > > > > > > nameserver 192.168.71.1 > > > search host,dns > > > >

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-25 Thread Hans
Hi all, with great interest I read all your discusssions. They were very interesting and I got a lot of informations. Thanks for it! I still wondered, if the new naming scheme is more usable for unexperienced users, say, someone with a notebook and often changing devices, like usb- drives, usb

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 August 2017 01:27:47 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 25 Aug 2017 at 00:54:11 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 24 August 2017 22:15:53 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 20:58:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 24 August 2017 12:30:37 Dan Ritter w

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Aug 2017 at 00:54:11 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2017 22:15:53 David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 20:58:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 August 2017 12:30:37 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0500, Davi

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 23:00:19 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-08-24 at 12:40, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:02:11 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > >> On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: > > >>> There are plenty of ways that you, or Debian, can set a default.

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 August 2017 22:15:53 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 20:58:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 24 August 2017 12:30:37 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > The history of computing is littered with stat

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-24 at 12:40, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:02:11 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: >>> There are plenty of ways that you, or Debian, can set a default. >>> But it surprises me that so many people grumble about this >>> change.

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 20:58:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2017 12:30:37 Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > The history of computing is littered with statements like > > > "virtually every computer has exactly one or t

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 August 2017 12:30:37 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > > There are, of course, five different ways to do this (at a > > > minimum): > > > > > > 1. /dev/sda1 is based on

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
expected to always be available from > boot-time onwards. You just made an assumption that does not match my reality, and you didn't even realize that you made it. :) The SD card may already be plugged in and contain the OS itself. But seriously, the only point I'm trying to make here i

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:59:46 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:02:11 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > > On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritt

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 13:35:17 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:51:48AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > For you, they wrote the last screenful of > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ > > One of the bullet points on that pa

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:51:48AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > For you, they wrote the last screenful of > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ One of the bullet points on that page says: * Stable interface names even if you have to replace broken

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:40:28AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:02:11 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > If things ever do reach a point where that is no longe

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 11:56:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > At my workplace, we have over 4,000 computers, which run Windows most of > the time but are occasionally booted to a bare-bones live-CD type of > Linux environment (and not a particularly customizable one) for > diagnostic and/or mainte

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 12:02:11 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > >> Getting back to the original point, NIC names -- virtually every > >> computer has exactly one or two NICs, and is best

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:43:56AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > There are, of course, five different ways to do this (at a > > minimum): > > > > 1. /dev/sda1 is based on discovery order. Changes in discovery order > > may indicate a sig

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 09:17:00 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-08-24 at 07:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >> Hi folks, > > > >> I stumbled over the new network names (i.e. wl0p8 instead of wlan0), and > >> of > >> course I kn

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-24 at 11:43, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: >> Getting back to the original point, NIC names -- virtually every >> computer has exactly one or two NICs, and is best served by eth0 >> and wlan0. The computers with 3-5 NICs are usually bes

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-24 at 11:48, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:30:33AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>> To the best of my awareness, the rationale for calling this >>> "predictable network interface names" is that, on a

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:30:33AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: However, I'll point out that machines with this many network interfaces are *by far* the exception rather than the rule; indeed, even machines with more than *one* interf

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 10:20:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:30:33AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > This closely parallels the move from using /dev/sdXn to UUIDs for > > referring to filesystems. Probably superior in theory and doesn't cause > > any issues as long as y

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:30:33AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > However, I'll point out that machines with this many network interfaces > > are *by far* the exception rather than the rule; indeed, even machines > > with more than *

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-24 at 09:30, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> However, I'll point out that machines with this many network >> interfaces are *by far* the exception rather than the rule; indeed, >> even machines with more than *one* interface ea

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > However, I'll point out that machines with this many network interfaces > are *by far* the exception rather than the rule; indeed, even machines > with more than *one* interface each of wired and wireless are reasonably > rare. In the

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-08-24 at 07:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > However, I'll point out that machines with this many network interfaces > are *by far* the exception rather than the rule [...] I

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-08-24 at 07:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Hans wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> I stumbled over the new network names (i.e. wl0p8 instead of wlan0), and of >> course I know, that this is obviously the newe standard (please correct me, >> i >> I am wr

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 01:11:27PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I stumbled over the new network names (i.e. wl0p8 instead of wlan0), and of > course I know, that this is obviously the newe standard (please correct me, i > I am wrong). Relax.

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, this is not just debian, you'll find it on archlinux as well. On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Hans wrote: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:11:27 From: Hans To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Question to new network device names Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:14:06 + (UTC) Resent-From: d

Re: Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 24-08-17, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I stumbled over the new network names (i.e. wl0p8 instead of wlan0), and of > course I know, that this is obviously the newe standard (please correct me, i > I am wrong). > > What I would like to know: Is this new naming scheme an international > standa

Question to new network device names

2017-08-24 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I stumbled over the new network names (i.e. wl0p8 instead of wlan0), and of course I know, that this is obviously the newe standard (please correct me, i I am wrong). What I would like to know: Is this new naming scheme an international standard on all linux distributions, or is this

Re: device names

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 13:46:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on the "other" partition on my > hd ( /dev/hda3) and came across a problem no one on the > Ubuntu forums could really resolve. > Grub2 was installed at the same time as Ubuntu, and the whole > installation

device names

2010-04-27 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on the "other" partition on my hd ( /dev/hda3) and came across a problem no one on the Ubuntu forums could really resolve. Grub2 was installed at the same time as Ubuntu, and the whole installation worked fine..for Ub

Re: device names?

2009-09-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Rick Pasotto wrote: > In the past I've successfully used: > > cdrdao write --device ATA:0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc vcd.toc > > to create an SVCD disk. Now, however, this gives the message: > > Error trying to open /dev/hdb exclusively (Device or resource busy)... > retrying in 1 second > > This is

device names?

2009-09-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
In the past I've successfully used: cdrdao write --device ATA:0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc vcd.toc to create an SVCD disk. Now, however, this gives the message: Error trying to open /dev/hdb exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second This is really strange since /dev/hdb is a

identifying devices from device names (was: udev causing data loss?)

2008-11-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.11.16.0054 +0100]: > Lets say you have an old server with 12 disks on two scsi busses an > you're using mdadm (rather than a hardware raid card). Lets say that > all 12 drives are in one array (just to make life interesting). One of > those d

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.Aug.08, 13:35:18, abel wrote: > question 1 --> [...] > Are the new menu.lst lines correct? > question 2 --> > update-grub should be run after the update to /etc/fstab. > correct? Read menu.lst, it's self-documenting. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't un

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-18 Thread abel
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:21:30 +0200 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I *think* it works, but this is your data... > > > > > I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always > > > update m

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 17 August 2008 20:35, abel wrote: >On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:32:04 +0300 > >Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to > > UUID) ;) > > > > $ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst > > # kopt=root=LABEL=sid

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-18 Thread abel
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:32:04 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 11:00, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Instead, check out: # tune2fs -L I added labels to mounted devices using this method. And if I'm remembering incorrectly, then the command will hopefully return an error message. What is the differen

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Instead, check out: > # tune2fs -L > > I added labels to mounted devices using this method. And if I'm > remembering incorrectly, then the command will hopefully return an > error message. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA >

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 03:21, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: I *think* it works, but this is your data... I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always update menu.lst by hand right? Of course, but if you update the kernel stanza directly yo

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I *think* it works, but this is your data... > > > I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always update > > menu.lst by hand right? > > Of course, but if you update the kernel stanza directly your changes > will be o

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 18:10 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > What do you mean with 'rm /etc/blkid.tab'? > > this is where blkid stores is db of information, I have found when you > have label/uuid problems then it is good to remove this, have a look at > man blkid > Thanks! I have a look at it. -

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > 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 d

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,12.Aug.08, 08:41:47, Aniruddha wrote: > Thanks for the tip, this sounds like a good idea especially since I > don't expect the label to change that much ^^ Can I rerun e2label on a > mounted partition? The man page isn't that informative. I *think* it works, but this is your data... >

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
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 ha

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 02:32 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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 > LABE

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
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 preven

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
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 disk

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 00:15 +0100, Robin wrote: > 2008/8/12 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used get it occasionally if I had usb mass storage device plugged in > when the computer was booted. This is how it started for me, now it doesn't matter if I have an usb device plugged in or not. Udev

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 02:11 +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2008 02:04, 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

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Robin
2008/8/12 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 12 August 2008 02:04, 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

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 02:04, 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

What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
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.ls

Re: device names

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Kraus
es get doled out by the system. Can someone >> explain, or refer me to a good explanation, of how hardware is >> discovered and named. libata unifies access to disks (pata and sata) and is bound into a scsi subsystem, so all the device names become scsi device names. > > &g

Re: device names

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Allums
ChadDavis wrote: After a new lenny installation on a new motherboard, my PATA drive came up as 'sdb'. I expected hda. I don't really care, but it does lead me to wonder how these names get doled out by the system. Can someone explain, or refer me to a good explanation, of how hardware is di

device names

2008-05-03 Thread ChadDavis
After a new lenny installation on a new motherboard, my PATA drive came up as 'sdb'. I expected hda. I don't really care, but it does lead me to wonder how these names get doled out by the system. Can someone explain, or refer me to a good explanation, of how hardware is discovered and named.

Re: "udev" trouble solved, device names, udev exonerated

2007-04-16 Thread cls
cking down the partition assignments using the UUID associated with a partition. That works, and survives adding and removing controllers. You can also give the file systems labels with e2label(8). So it seems device names can no longer be relied on to stay the same when you add in new devices, and the wo

Re: The same hardware different ethernet device names

2006-12-04 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:16:18AM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > I've got several Intel server platforms on every platform I > upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five > of them I have two ethernet interf

The same hardware different ethernet device names

2006-12-04 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, I've got several Intel server platforms on every platform I upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five of them I have two ethernet interfaces eth0/eth1 but ONLY one has eth1 eth2 actually eth2/eth1 - this order. debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Re

a few observations on converting /dev old device names to devfs, a few hints

2002-01-29 Thread Walter Tautz
able to mount my partitions using the old device names--good thing. I > > Anyone know how to create devfs? > > mount -t devfs - /dev That worked but it creates weird time stamps: # ls -al /dev/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 26

Re: New device names after kernel update from 2.2 to 2.4

2001-07-30 Thread Guy Geens
>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert Pirke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Herbert> As far as I know, some block device names changed with the Herbert> 2.4 kernel, so I wonder if that changes a lot. Maybe some Herbert> changed/added simlinks fix the problem. Normall

New device names after kernel update from 2.2 to 2.4

2001-07-25 Thread Herbert Pirke
, bzImage... etc. as it used to be for 2.2.x updates. As far as I know, some block device names changed with the 2.4 kernel, so I wonder if that changes a lot. Maybe some changed/added simlinks fix the problem. Also, is it possible to have a 2.2 and a 2.4 kernel on one machine and let lilo either

Re: SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

1999-07-12 Thread Robert Rati
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jason Carley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have > loaded the > kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it > found. > Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for

SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

1999-07-12 Thread Jason Carley
Hi all, I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have loaded the kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it found. Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for SCSI device 0). There is no /dev/sg* on my slink system.