using udev to consistently name the /dev/ node for a sata drive

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:34:49AM +0200, Tim Richardson wrote:
> I have two SATA disks in my machine. One is the boot disk which also has the
> ext3 partitions. The other is my original Win XP disk.
> 
> fstab uses UUID and Feisty works fine.
> But from time to time, the drive names in /dev/sd* are swapped. /dev/sda is
> not always my boot disk. Sometimes it is the Win XP disk.
> 
> This causes chaos for vmware server, because I like to add my WinXP drive as
> a physical drive, and vmware server lets me address drives only by the /dev/
> name.
> 
> can I make a rule for udev that identifies sata disks (or scsi disks) using
> UUID as the kernel name, and then making sure the /dev/ name will always be
> the same?

Use /dev/disk/by-uuid/*.

Marius Gedminas
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