> The solution for this is to use the UUID of the drive (which is unique > to the drive, I think) rather than the device node. >
snip > But I looked up the UUID of each filesystem, and now my fstab looks like > this: > > UUID=8948fa53-af4f-4db2-b3f7-f256e33ad20e > /b reiserfs defaults 0 0 > UUID=98ce791e-93a7-4c84-9652-5d1a1a8c437d > /b1 ext3 acl,user_xattr 0 0 > > and it works perfectly every time! > > To get the UUID, have the (currently assigned) device node (I'll use > /dev/sde1 as an example) and as root do: > > (For ext3) > tune2fs -l /dev/sde1 > > (For reiser - partition must be unmounted first) > reiserfstune /dev/sde1 > > These printouts will display your filesystems' UUIDs, which you can then > sub in as shown above. Cool. Thanks. I'm saving this one for future use :-) C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]