Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > So I switched to > > > "super grub disk" that allows me to state in menu.lst: > > title 2.6.26-1-686 di install > findf /wd80_0jd-60.03 > root$(out_device) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom >>> wrote: Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used in R

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Well, that worked. And /etc/fstab is happy with >> >> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3750640AS-5QD4Z81L-part1 /bottom ext3 >> defaults,auto,rw,nodev 0 0 >> >> but /boot/menu/grub is not happy with >> >> title

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? Yes Well, that worked. And /etc/fstab is happy with /d

GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be >> used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? > > Yes Well, that worked. And /etc/fstab is happy with /dev/disk/by-

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used > in RAID pairs or for LLVM? Yes > by-uuid seems to miss one of the SATA drives completely, although it > does list one SATA drive, the IDE drive, and the plugged-in US

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:03:39 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the >> same physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has >> the problem become obsolete? >

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 4 2009, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same > physical drives?  Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the > problem become obsolete? /dev/disk/by-uuid/686C-7E81 /media/usb_DAWGS vfat users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same > physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the > problem become obsolete? Have a look at the /dev/disk/by-* directories. There you'll find seve

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:23:06AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm currently running an etch system, soon to be updated to Lenny. > > I recently installed two identical internal SATA disks and spend a few > days bad-block testing them. They passed. > > They show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. >

Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm currently running an etch system, soon to be updated to Lenny. I recently installed two identical internal SATA disks and spend a few days bad-block testing them. They passed. They show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. As far as I know, these /dev designators are dynamically assigned at boot