On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not > detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and > /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong places > (/dev/sda seems consistent, but I don't know why). > > What's the recommended way to fix this?
You can set labels to all the partitions, and set /etc/fstab to use them: my fstab looks like: LABEL=Gentoo / ext4 noatime 0 1 LABEL=Swap none swap sw 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 I believe this is the recommended way to use fstab in distros like Fedora and OpenSUSE, because of your use case exactly. You can set labels to ext[234] partitions with e2label, and for NTFS partitions you can use ntfslabel, and to swap partitions with mkswap. I suppose every filesystem in the world has a similar tool to set its label. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
