Dennis Wicks wrote: > I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI > drives. Quite some time ago the Linux kernel changed so that all ide drives now use the scsi driver. What you are seeing is a normal change. But you should have seen it some years ago! Long enough ago that I forget exactly when it occurred. Perhaps this actually happened for you previously and you are just noticing it now? What were the kernel versions before and after? > I did a shutdown -h, pulled the power cord for about a minute, and > booted again and same thing. Yes. It is a kernel change. > It looks like everything is mounted alright What do you have in /etc/fstab? If everything is mounting okay then I think it likely that this change did already happen for you some time ago and you didn't notice it until just now. Which is good. Because it would mean that this isn't too exciting of a change for you after all. > except for my swapspace. They (swap space) are all defined by UUID= > and there were boot messages that it couldn't find them. I tried a > swapon -a and got a message "cannot find the device for UUID=..." I have never seen the UUID of a partition change spontaneously. > Any ideas what is wrong and/or how to fix it? I am a little worried > that something is going to get screwed up! Use the blkid command to print out the UUID and other information for all of your devices. Find your swap device in that list. Does the UUID of your swap device match the UUID listed in /etc/fstab? # blkid Other ideas... Did you restore from backup recently and perhaps replace your fstab with an older copy? Did you copy files from machine to machine and replace your fstab with a different copy? This won't affect your running system. It will only come into affect at boot time. If you don't reboot very often then you could go years without noticing a problem there. Until you reboot. Bob
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