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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2015-04-08 10:22, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Am 07.04.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:

> > /dev/sd* are in the class of the most unstable names you can
> > possibly /get.
>
> No, actually not.
>
> In "normal" setups (no multipath, fancy storage etc), all disks are
> /dev/sd*
>
> The only exception is KVM Virtualization if people still use the
> (old, featureless, not useful) virtio-blk instead of the (better,
> newer, more features) virtio-scsi. The solution there: use
> virtio-scsi, and disks are again /dev/sd*.

In my desktop, /dev/sda can become sdb or sdc on the next boot, if I
happened to hotplug some other disk (maybe usb, maybe esata). Using of
/dev/sd* names has been deprecated for a reason.

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.

  (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
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