On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I > > mean? > > Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The > filesystem label doesn't change just because disks decided to detect > in a different order.
On Thursday 03 January 2008 09:49, Ron Johnson wrote: [Are you Johnson's related? :-D] > But if you don't want to recreate your swap partitions, you can > still refer to them by UUID. > > # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep UUID > > Then edit /etc/fstab: > UUID="3324e03c-f071-47da-b5eb-3889836d802e" swap swap pri=1 0 0 > > > Is there no way to control the order that the sata controllers > > get mapped ? > > Maybe, but labels and UUIDs obviate the need. Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously tune2fs does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? I'm interested in the "Maybe" part, since UUIDs won't work for my situation. P.S. I hadn't noticed that dave N had started a thread with the same question. Duh :-) JW -- ---------------------- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com http://jwadmin.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]