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Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??



On 18/1/21 10:09 am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as
/dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it.

Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the
name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`.


         Stefan



YES

This has happened to me. I suspect because the system recognises the
conventional drive before the m.2, but not positive.

I had to set the m.2 as the boot in cmos.  And remove the conventional
drive when I want to install a new OS.

--
Keith Bainbridge

ke1thozgroups@gmx.com


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