disks renamed in 8.04

[James Tappin]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:27:20 +0100
R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:

RK> Is this new assignment permanent?  Can I rely on it being /dev/sdd1,
RK> as it now is, from reboot to reboot?

I'm not sure, but (assuming you want the device to be mounted at boot,
rather than hotplugging) I'd suggest a safe option would be to give the
device a label, e.g.:

tune2fs -L BACKUP /dev/sdd1
then in your /etc/fstab have:
LABEL=BACKUP .....
as the mount specification

James

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