disk devices in F9 interchanged

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 19:08:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:57 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
> > I my actual F8, I have 2 disk devices: One Sata-Disk: /dev/sda, and 1 
> > IDE-Disk: /dev/sdb.
> > But in F9 Beta, these two disks seem to be interchanged (/dev/sda <--> 
> > /dev/sdb). Is this true, and if yes, why?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> Should drive detection change from alpha to beta? Does it really make 
> any differnce?

Yes, drive detection may change between alpha and beta. It could change
depending on the phase of the moon. 

Device names are dynamically assigned and may change without warning or
reason. DO NOT RELY ON THEM STAYING THE SAME BECAUSE THEY WON'T.

This is why we use filesystem labels, UUIDs, etc.

-w
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