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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
To: Carles Pina i Estany <is08139@salleURL.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Name of SCSI Device
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:13:24 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101162113.f0GLDPo14154@webber.adilger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101162111550.15252-100000@vela.salleURL.edu> "from Carles Pina i Estany at Jan 16, 2001 09:17:53 pm"

You write:
> If we install a SCSI hard disk drive, with ID3, an nothing on ID1 or ID2,
> will be sda. If we install a new disk on ID1, the drive that before was
> sda now change the name to sdb.
> 
> Why the name of hard disk drive of SCSI Controller are not fixed?
> ID0=sda
> ID1=sdb
> ID2=sdc

There are not enough major/minor numbers to do this.

> Then, it is possible that we must change /etc/fstab

If you are using ext2 (or ext3), it is possible to mount by filesystem
LABEL or UUID.  See man pages for e2label/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/mount(8)/fstab(5).

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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2001-01-16 21:17 Name of SCSI Device Carles Pina i Estany
2001-01-16 21:13 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]

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