Shifting mount points for drives

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Tue May 20 12:08:12 UTC 2008


> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this needs to be filed as a bug and if it is, what
> component to shove it under!
>
> My machine has 4 HDDs, 3 DVDs (one is a CDRW, one is a DVD, one is a
> DVDRW), an internal zip and a floppy with card reader.
>
> /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are both on the motherboard IDE
> /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd (DVDRW and DVD/CDRW) are on the motherboard
> secondary IDE
>
> I have an IDE card in my machine as well which has the zip & DVD on one
> channel and the other two hard drives on the other channel. The Zip is
> set as master, DVD as secondary on their channel.
>
> For some reason, the two HDDs keep getting shifted in their drive
> numbers. If I have in /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sde1 /mp3
> /dev/sdf1 /web
>
> then things should be happy. But they're not. When I reboot, there is a
> good change that they will be /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1 or /dev/sdf1
> and /dev/sdg1 but it's rare that they're /dev/sde1 and /dev/sdf1.
>
> If I comment them out of fstab, then when I come to mount them, they are
> *always* /dev/sde1 and /dev/sdf1
>
> Any clues as to why this would be?

No, but the best solution is to have fstab refer to them by label, not
device name.  I can't remember when this took effect, the little man on my
shoulder says maybe fc7?

> TTFN
>
> Paul
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