On Tuesday May 19 2009, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Downloaded the 11.2 build and was going to upgrade my 11.0 test bed.
I have three drives with several versions on them. sda with windows and a bunch of storage. sdb with 11.0 sdc1 with 10.2 and sdc8 with 10.3
When I went to upgrade 11.0 TO 11.2 the installer listed the drives this way:
sda1 as 10.2 and sda8 as 10,3 No mention of sdb sdc as 11.0
I was afraid to continue for fear of overwriting something else. Anybody else seeing this? Is it a change again?
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. 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..
Bob S
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