20 May
2018
20 May
'18
1:59 a.m.
On 20/05/18 10:40, Andrew Greig wrote:
I have a more fundamental issue now, the installer has named my former sda (in a one hdd system) to sdc.
My sda should be my 1Tb former OpenSuse , and the two new drives should be sdb and sdc.
Is this just a case of correcting where it is plugged in?
No. The drive names are not stable, they can change from version to version as a result of kernel code changes. Do not use /dev/sd* in your /etc/fstab, for example. Always use drive UUIDs instead. That also ensures that a RAID array will assemble correctly regardless of which SATA connectors you use.
at what point will I fire up mdadm?
Before you set up LVM. Hope that helps, Andrew