On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:51:53PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Carl Turney (carl@boms.com.au):
Hadn't ever experienced sda and sdb changing assignments in my system -- except one period years ago when the pin contacts on my IDE/PATA caddies got a bit wonky.
Nor I.
i've had it happen on kernel upgrades, and even on reboots - a new version of udev or something loaded modules in a different order, so drives got detected in a different order. i also dislike UUIDs because of their ugliness and non- human-readability so my /etc/fstab has a mixture of LABEL and /dev/md* devices - but i understand how the boot process works well enough to have no difficulty just editing /etc/fstab and whatever else is needed to get my system to boot again if there's ever a problem. i expect you're the same. for people without that skill, though, it's better that they just follow the recommended defaults so that they don't cause major problems for themselves. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #118: the router thinks its a printer.