On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:37:33 +0100, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
> 2009/7/17 Brian Chivers <brian@???>:
>> I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an
>> external firewire drive & I just
>> rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5 and the others map
>> & this caused problems when
>> I ran the autofs files as it talk to /dev/sdc1 for the first wire & this
>> was now sda1 !!!
>>
>
> Surely this is precisely the argument _for_ using UUID and not old
> style /dev/sda device names?
>
> If you get the UUID of the external drive and plug that in your fstab,
> the problem goes away.
Assuming you can get consistent UUIDs for external (USB/firewire) drives.
Not sure whether you do or not.
T
