On 05/09/2013 07:10 AM, st wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names. >> What I use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the "disks" and >> "partitions" with meaningful names which only change when you decide to >> change them. > > One simple question, though: if you have 2 similar HDDs and one > of them starts to fail, how do you know which one it is?
It might help to look at the disk's "path" which is mapped to the physical ports: ~$ ls /dev/disk/by-path -l | cut -c 40- pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sde pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 -> ../../sdf pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:2 -> ../../sdg pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:5:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:3 -> ../../sdh pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:6.4:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdi pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2 -> ../../sda2 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0 -> ../../sdb pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0-part2 -> ../../sdb2 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-2:0:0:0 -> ../../sdc pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-2:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdc1 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-3:0:0:0 -> ../../sdd pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-3:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sdd1 pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-5:0:0:0 -> ../../sr0 > It's turned into quite an issue for me since Debian stopped > assigning disk names in a predictable way. HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.ohost.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518b8e64.8010...@web.de