"Rick Thomas" <rick.tho...@pobox.com> writes: > The /dev/sdx names for devices have been unpredictable for quite a > while. Which one is sda and which sdb will depend on things like > timing -- which one gets recognized by the kernel first. > > The best solution is to either use UUID or LABEL when you fsck > and/or mount the device.
IMO the best solution is to use LVM. I use it since 2001 on most drives and I don't have partitions. And I prefer to use device names over using the *UUID or *LABEL prefixes. With LVM, device names are predictable /dev/mapper/<vg-name>-<lv-name> with symlinks /dev/<vg-name>/<lv-name>. urs