On 8/7/08, Martin Mielke
Hi list,
some weeks ago I bought 2 external USB 2.0 hard disks to use them as mass-storage for assorted data.
I created the ext3 filesystem on both and mounted them just fine under /disk1 and /disk2.
This is how it looks like now (correct way): -- /dev/sdb1 480719088 96188532 360111356 22% /disk1 /dev/sdc1 480719088 252211016 204088872 56% /disk2 --
Yesterday I had to reboot the system to apply some patches and found those external hard disks wrongly mounted when the system came back to life: -- /dev/sdb1 480719088 96188532 360111356 22% /disk2 <-- this should be /disk1 /dev/sdc1 480719088 252211016 204088872 56% /disk1 <-- this should be /disk2 --
My /etc/fstab has the following entries for them: -- /dev/sdb1 /disk1 ext3 acl,user_xattr 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /disk2 ext3 acl,user_xattr 0 0 --
I rebooted the system 2 times more just to check this behavior and it seems that /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 are "swapped" at boot time sometimes for some reason still unclear to me... and of course, I don't swap the USB cables :-P
Any idea why this happens??
TIA, Martin
Dunno for sure, but it might be solved by using disk-ID's instead of sd*'s. On my brother's system (Ubuntu) we noticed USB disks changing sd* names at boot depending on wether and where other USB devices were present and the phase of the moon (:P). What I want to say is: if you mount USB devices automatically then you should use disk-ID's instead of sd* names. just my 0,02€ Neil
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