On 10/29/2014 04:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Ruben Safir composed on 2014-10-29 16:10 (UTC-0400):
sda2 will always be sda2 until you make a change in the bios.
Never say "never", and never say "always". Most times you do you can be proven wrong.
It is the first device on your sata chain.
Where the chain starts can depend on the installed hardware, which can change when external devices are added or removed. The BIOS may or may not be capable of ordering such that external devices will not change the order. Maybe you have hardware that makes sda stay sda. I have hardware with BIOS that doesn't and can't. To keep sda sda here on those installations requires effort be put into the OS start procedure to work around the BIOS shortcoming.
Worse than that. In the past Felix has also pointed out that using fdisk to change the partitions can alter what partition is called #2 even if you didn't make any alterations to the partition you used to call #2. -- The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org