On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:32:15 +0100, Christopher Zimmermann <madro...@zakweb.de> wrote: > I have a similar problem since I an using softraid to encrypt /var and > /home. The softraid device is usually on sd0. But when I have an usb > mass storage device plugged in during boot up it gets assigned to sd0 > and softraid gets sd1. Still, my fstab tries to mount from /dev/sd0X. > This can be annoying.
it is, but an easy way to avoid this is to use the UID to mount. If your sd0X has no UID, simply open it with disklabel and save without other changes - this generates one. You can then change /dev/sd0X to UID.X in your fstab. Matthias
