Re: 10.3 and new disk naming tree

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:16 -0600, Craig Andersen wrote:
The old naming method of disk devices (like sda, sdb, ...) in
/boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab seems to be available if you do a
mkinitrd after changing the files to sda1, ... Is there anything else to
be concerned about ? I am not sure how the
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules apply ? For now it works
but hopefully the naming will not change from one boot to the next.

/dev/sd* names can change order based on controllers and LUNs
being added.

The names under /dev/disk/by-id are persistent.

I usually use /dev/sd* for / for booting on the kernel line (not
sure if /dev/disk names work there)... and then use the
/dev/disk names in /etc/fstab for the other mounts.

If you keep your primary boot drive at the first drive (e.g.
/dev/sda), then the rest can float around if you /dev/disk
instead of the volatile names.


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