Re: inconsistent mounting

Thanks guys that seems to have worked nicely

chris





On 03/02/11 18:05, Rene Bartosh wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Not sure what distro you are running, but I believe what you are
> looking for are UUIDs
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier).
> /etc/fstab on my Ubuntu system has the following info:
>
> # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
> # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
> # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> # / was on /dev/sdd1 during installation
> UUID=fe5b6b56-2725-41c0-99bf-123316cd8586  /              ext4
> errors=remount-ro      0  1
> # swap was on /dev/sdd5 during installation
> UUID=dfba75f4-9da8-4a7e-8e30-3755b157feb2  none           swap
> sw                     0  0
>
> Hope that points you in the right direction,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rene
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Chris Morris<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I have two 1TB and one 2TB drive in this workstation. The two that don't
>> have an OS on them are purely storage and every time I reboot I have to
>> mount them manually.
>> The reason being is that they often turn up in different locations after the
>> reboot.
>> For example the 2TB may appear on /dev/sda or perhaps /dev/sdg or /dev/sdf
>>
>> I would have thought one would have to physically change the
>> sata-lead/sata-port on the motherboard for this to happen, but it seems not.
>> Something in the BIOS perhaps?
>>
>> This random allocation is what prevents me from adding the mount points to
>> fstab for auto-mounting the storage drives.
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> chris
>>
>>
>>
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