On 2007/12/07 09:54 (GMT+0100) Morten Bjørnsvik apparently typed:
My problem is If I leave the esata connected drives on during a reboot, they come up as sda,sdb forcing the internals to become sdc,sdd. How can this be avoided,
There may be motherboard BIOS setting(s) to do it. It seems if BIOS were smart, they would default to external connectors = last found. Are your external ports on a PCI card? Are your internals actually PATA, being supported by the OS as SCSI via libata?
On redhat we earlier used mount labels, but I've not been using it for years.
AFAIK, all current and recent Linux distros support mount by-label. Fedora 7-up installation enforces mount by-label. IMO by-label is far superior in user friendliness to mounting by-UUID or device ID, keeping fstab comprehensible and more compact. I mount my 10.2 root by-label, but all other partitions by device name. So far I've only used eSATA for full partition backups, and so haven't needed to mount any eSATA partitions. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org