Re: Specifying disks to monitor in Linux
Jindřich Makovička <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:34, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Linux, the names of the disk devices can change from boot to boot. For > example, if you have two disk controllers, and you have a SATA cable from > the first controller running to an external plug. > > In this case the names of the disks on the second controller will change, > depending on whether or not there is a drive plugged into the external > plug on booting. > > There are a number of legitimate and unavoidable reasons why the names of > drives can change. I could list them off, but you get the point. > > In the /etc/fstab file, this problem is solved by referring to the drives > using their UUIDs instead of the hardware name. > > Is it possible to have similar functionality in gkrellm? I don't like to > keep going in and changing its configuration every time I reboot. IMO this not an issue GKrellM should solve. Rather use /dev/disk/by-id/... or /by-path/... instead of /dev/sdX. -- Jindrich Makovicka ______________________________________________ Gkrellm mailing list [email protected] Read archives-join-leave-set RSS feed: http://archive.lists.netservicesgroup.com This service is provided by The Network Services Group: http://www.netservicesgroup.com