-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-12-12 at 18:54 -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
Lars Müller wrote:
The approach of using /dev/disk/by-id makes things more reliable. The device name stays idependent of the order the controllers get initialized.
Or think about adding a new disk to an existing system. Your old device names stay independet if a controller or new disks get added.
Yeah, except, with the old way I could copy an opld drive to a new drive and the new drive would still be that same /dev/sdXx, and all bootloader configs would magically still work without editing or adjusting even though I'd completely replaced the drive.
The by-id way breaks in that case. all the id's change.
No, it doesn't break. You simply have to use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ instead. Just choose the method appropriate to your case. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkskMr8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XGJACgiMZTKLwPh24eUIDVyOqlteTj M2gAn1bzPz0dfgS2VMpTfPmZvBydTl/E =QAjP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----