Feature changed by: Federico Lucifredi
Feature #305621, revision 2
Title: Conversion of kernel disk names to by-id or by-label
SLES-11-SP1
Requested by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Background
Using kernel disk names (e.g. /dev/sdX) is discouraged and should be
replaced by mount-by-id or mount-by-label specifiers.
This is done by default for fresh installs, so all is fine there.
However, older systems which were continuously updated, might still use
the old disk device names. Such systems might not boot (resp. update)
correctly with newer kernels, let alone correct detection of disk
devices.
Request
Provide a tool which maps kernel-based disk names to by-id (resp. by-
label) disk names. Ideally, this tool would automatically convert
* /etc/fstab
* /boot/grub/menu.lst
and others.
A simple script-based tool is sufficient
The tool must be run before the upgrade in order to correctly detect
disk devices.
YaST should reference the tool when detecting kernel disk device names
during upgrade.
References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429019
+ Discussion:
+ #1: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2009-01-05 22:35:52)
+ Should we add this to 11.2 as well?
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305621
