Alan Pope 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
Not sure I could get consistent UUID's as I have 8 of these drives &
they're not in the fstab as I use autofs to mount & unmount them as &
when they're needed so they can be unplugged & swapped over.
Brian
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