On Tuesday May 19 2009, Bob S wrote:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 04:58:52 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: .<original message snipped>.......
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.
Hello Randall,
OK I know where everything is presentlybut if you are doing an upgrade you never get to see the partioner. It just supplies you with this incorrect information.
That is not true. Use the fancy / full-feature partitioner, not the "we know what's best for you" mode.
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..
I also use /disk/by-label but as I explained to Greg that doesn't help when you are upgrading blindly.
I only know the expert partitioner, but it shows everything that it can detect / determine about existing partitions, and that includes their labels.
Bob S
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