Re: Re-assignement of hard drives

Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez <angel_gr@xxxxxxxx> writes:
We have some computers running scientific Linux that share an internal DVD
unit (we chenage it to the one needed). The problem we've found is that
plugging in that unit changes the way the OS "labels" the disks. This is
(just an hypotetical example):
/ /home DVD-unit
Without DVD-unit /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
With DVD-unit /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 /dev/hda

Is there a way I can keep that assignemnt fixed ? Anywhere I can find info
about it?

Device names are not stable any more. The usual approach is to identify
partitions by labels or UUIDs (see e.g 'man fstab' for details); you may
find other possibilities under /dev/disk.

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