Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1898 mails)

[dwgallien <dwgallien@xxxxxxxxx>]

In addition to device-ID and UUID, a common practice is to use your own Volume 
Label.


> Thank you
>
> Learnt a bit more tonight ;-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] HDD mount question
>
>
> > On Saturday 31 of July 2010 12:31:33 Andrew Rich wrote:
> > > Does this mean LINUX has it already sorted for me ?
> > >
> > > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Passport_070A_575836314331304132333530-0:0-part1
> > > /data1               ntfs-3g
> > > users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
> > >
> > > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_My_Passport_070A_575843304341394436353438-0:0-part1
> > > /data2               ntfs-3g
> > > users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
> > >
> > > Seems disk 1 and disk 2 have different ID's
> > >
> > > I looked in YAST / partioner and it is set to Mount by "Device ID"
> > >
> > > Device: /dev/sdb1
> > > Device Path: pci-0000:00:04.1-usb-0:4:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
> > > Device ID 1: usb-WD_My_Passport_070A_575836314331304132333530-0:0-part1
> > >
> > > Device: /dev/sdc1
> > > Device Path: pci-0000:00:06.1-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1
> > > Device ID 1: usb-WD_My_Passport_070A_575843304341394436353438-0:0-part1
> > >
> > > So I should be ok ?
> >
> > Device IDs are different from UUIDs; device IDs depend on the hard disk 
> > serial
> > number, while a UUID is stored in the filesystem. In your case, fstab is 
> > using
> > device IDs, which remain constant across reboots, reconnections etc. So 
> > you
> > should be ok.
> >
> > > Will try it my marking each disk with a little text file in the root and
> > > see if I can fool LINUX ;-)
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Andrew
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
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