19 Jan
2009
19 Jan
'09
1:18 p.m.
Hi, 2009/1/19 Dan Hatton <vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk>:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
why not move over to UUID's ?
Tell me more...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid AFAIK, the UUIDs for disks are unique to filesystems. ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ You can use this in fstab as such: UUID=b824e09e-e582-45ba-81aa-3b49733e82ee /data ext3 defaults 0 0 This way, it doesn't matter if you swap over the cables and the disk becomes sdb rather than sda, mount will still find the correct filesystem to mount by UUID. -Srdj