Re: USB disk is sdf instead of sde
basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> wrote:
> I use a USB disk for weekly backups.
> Today the disk is always named sdf instead of sde.
> fdisk show's no sde
> udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name=/dev/sde found no node
> cat /dev/sd
> sda sda2 sdb sdb2 sdc sdd sdf sdf2
> sda1 sda3 sdb1 sdb3 sdc1 sdd1 sdf1
> Is there a way to find who still use sde ?
Legacy device names like /dev/sde are not stable or even predictable. If
they "belong" to hotpluggable devices even less so.
You better use a guaranteed static name like the ones found in
/dev/disk/by-id/ or /dev/disk/by-uuid to address your backup disk.
Or you can write your own udev-rule to create a device/symlink like
/dev/backup-disk to point to the actual device name of the device and
then use that as backup target.
Grüße,
Sven.
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