From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B52C433E2 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023FA204EC for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731441AbgIAQKp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 12:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:47512 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731340AbgIAQKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 12:10:43 -0400 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org To: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 209089] USB storage devices appear as SATA devices Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:10:43 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: AssignedTo drivers_usb@kernel-bugs.kernel.org X-Bugzilla-Product: Drivers X-Bugzilla-Component: USB X-Bugzilla-Version: 2.5 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: high X-Bugzilla-Who: stern@rowland.harvard.edu X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P1 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: drivers_usb@kernel-bugs.kernel.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-usb-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209089 --- Comment #9 from Alan Stern (stern@rowland.harvard.edu) --- (I bet you could have fixed the fstab contents by booting from the pen drive in "rescue" mode, with no need to have FreeBSD installed.) Changing the monikers is only a partial solution. For example, devices that show up as uda and udb one day could very well show up as udb and uda the next day. Also, suppose your system's primary hard disk was attached by USB rather than SATA. Then the pen drive could have been labelled uda and the primary drive labelled udb, and your fstab would still be messed up. This is part of the reason why people recommend using filesystem or GUID labels for fstab entries rather than drive names and partition numbers. In short, changing the monikers isn't going to happen, and even if it did happen it wouldn't fully fix your original problem. However, there is a way to set up your system to use permanently fixed drive names that you assign. All you have to do is write and install an appropriate udev script. Then you can make the drive names be anything you want. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.