Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:58:52 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
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> The assignment of the drive letter portion of a disk device's minor
> number is not stable or predictable and should never be counted on. Use
> either a volume label (where available) or a drive or partition unique
> ID.
>
> Boot your 11.0 system and list all the entries in /dev/disk/by-id. There
> you'll find a symlink for every drive and every partition to a /dev/sdD
> or /dev/sdDP entry (D: drive; P: partition). That will let you know
> unambiguously where your existing partitions are in terms that are
> stable across releases. Then when you're in the partitioner module of
> the installer you can tell it to display these unique IDs and correlate
> them with what you know a given drive or partition holds.
Hello Randall,

OK I know where everything is presentlybut if you are doing an upgrade you 
never get to see the partioner. It just supplies you with this incorrect 
information.

> Personally, I label all my partitions (including swap partitions) and
> use by-label mounting. This is indicated by fstab entries that use
> LABEL=driveOrPartitionLabel in the first column..
I also use /disk/by-label but as I explained to Greg that doesn't help when 
you are upgrading blindly.

Bob S
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