From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: malahal@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: Configuring multipath for root device Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:57:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20080107215746.GA16911@us.ibm.com> References: <110b17190712191302o60d521eaj693410c26d07c1ad@mail.gmail.com> <1198099093.26366.32.camel@linuxchandra> <110b17190801071219k11749b81n45a7d1d5d35b9413@mail.gmail.com> <20080107202853.GA9833@us.ibm.com> <110b17190801071240i1690a9a0ua3b26acd7c3b349a@mail.gmail.com> <20080107204631.GA10495@us.ibm.com> <110b17190801071256j429907e5iec4f35b74cfb73c8@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <110b17190801071256j429907e5iec4f35b74cfb73c8@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: dm-devel@redhat.com List-Id: dm-devel.ids Pradipmaya Maharana [pradipmaya@gmail.com] wrote: > I did exactly what you said for SLES 10.1, > - Create custom partition > - Created partitions for /boot, / and swap of 100MB, 5GB and 1024MB > respectively on /dev/sda. So /dev/sda1 is for "/boot", /dev/sda2 for > "/" and /dev/sda3 for "swap" > - Under fstab option, selected Mount by device-id for each of the partition > - Reboot is fine > - But as I said earlier, mount, fstab, everything shows devcie names, not id > > Any way to mount it by device-id? > Is there a way that it can be chaned after installation? Or re-install > is the only way. I would just replace sd* names by their equivalent by-id names in fstab and grub.conf. Do 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*' to get the by-id names corresponding to your named partitions' No need to re-install. -Malahal.