Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (838 mails)

[Thomas Taylor <linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:02:21 +0100
jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 12/03/2011 07:58, Thomas Taylor a écrit :
>
> > If you get rid of /dev/disk/by-id, How can you identify a partition in
> > event of a partition table failure?  
>
> the partition number is still part of the name

Not on my install (11.4 from scratch) unless I modify /etc/fstab
and /boot/grub/menu.lst as shown in the attached screenshots.  The only
partition number in either one are what I have added, not by the installer
which ONLY shows uuids, not partition numbers.

> > Also, if you have a drive failure and have to restore from a backup (disk
> > image), how are you going to partition a new disk which will have different
> > uuids?
>
> if you don't have a "fdisk -l" hard copy, you are in trouble for
> recovery of the same disk. For an other disk the partitionning have no
> meaning (only the mount points have)
>
> or may be I don't understand the point
>
> jdd

I always save a backup before any update/install including drive info.  How do
you ghost a backup that only has uuids when replacing a defective drive (I.E.
how do you transfer the uuids which will be different on the new drive)?

Tom

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