This is just a warning to people to take care when using new hardware ;-) Got my replacement home server running, everything seemed to be ok (low power consumption, 4 drives, SATA3, i3 so effectively four cores). And then, after fixing up the kernel config so that I could access external drives (I had not realised the mobo only had a USB3 controller, I'd assumed the USB2 sockets used an earlier driver) I started to write backups to an external disk.
With four internal drives (sda system, sdc /staging for all my boxes to rsync to for backups, RAID1 sdb and sdd as /dev/md0 for the final backups and other data) I had assumed the external drive would be /dev/sde1 like on the previous box. And the first time, it was. But then I unmounted that drive and inserted another. And suddenly the new one had become /dev/sdd1. I then reinserted the original external drive instead, and it too was now sdd1. I've now moved on to backing up some other stuff to a third external drive - still sdd1, but I bet at some point an external drive will be sde1 again. Just when I thought I understood device naming 8-| ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
