From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:13:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:13:44 -0500 Received: from [24.65.192.120] ([24.65.192.120]:20984 "EHLO webber.adilger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:13:31 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200101162113.f0GLDPo14154@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: Name of SCSI Device In-Reply-To: "from Carles Pina i Estany at Jan 16, 2001 09:17:53 pm" To: Carles Pina i Estany Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:13:24 -0700 (MST) CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL73 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/