Hi Markus On Monday 14 November 2011 18:22:22 Markus Koeberl wrote: > what about /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-path ? > > It seams to be supported by setup-storage: > /* fully qualified device-path or short form, like hda, whereby full > * path is assumed to be /dev/hda; may contain shell globbing such > * as /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-* */
Hmm, tried that, does not seem to work - possibly me being too tired: root@ra01:~# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/scsi*|grep -v part lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_DeLOCK_54164_8G20110329AA0060000435 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH36DMA -> ../../sdl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH36DVA -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH36DZA -> ../../sdg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH36E8A -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH36EEA -> ../../sdj lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH37KMA -> ../../sdh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH37MPA -> ../../sdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH38H4A -> ../../sdk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH38L0A -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH39N3A -> ../../sdf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH39NMA -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 14 18:33 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi- SATA_Hitachi_HUA7230_MK0331YHH39NNA -> ../../sdi cat SERVER disk_config /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_DeLOCK.* disklabel:msdos bootable:1 primary / 128- ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro FAI's error message is: Starting setup-storage 1.3 Device name /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_DeLOCK.* could not be substituted (the same without the '.' did also fail) Cheers Carsten