On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb > > etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. > > > > To prevent this from happening I 've added 'disk/by id' to fstab > > (because the disks uuid were also changing) and 'boot from uuid' to my > > menu.lst I wonder: > > > > -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? > > -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? > > I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to UUID) ;) > > $ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst > # kopt=root=LABEL=sid ro vga=0x368 > > You have to run 'update-grub' after changing this > > $ grep sid /etc/fstab > LABEL=sid / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime,commit=600 0 1 > > For ext2/3 you set the labels with e2label. can I siggusting sticking to label, easier to read and also doing a rm /etc/blkid.tab > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) -- "And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?" - George W. Bush 06/15/2004 Washington, DC
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