On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 19:13 Carotinho wrote:
The currently running system, with the Arch-supplied 2.6.24 kernel, has the disk devices all mapped to a /dev/sd* scheme, even if 3 are IDE and another is SATA.
At first sorry that i don't answer your question and gives you instead a hint. I use for a very long time labels for my partitions and i can say that this is a very good method to avoid problems in such cases instead there be some others too. Example from my fstab: LABEL=archroot / jfs defaults,relatime 1 1 LABEL=archboot /boot ext2 defaults,relatime 1 2 LABEL=home /home jfs defaults,relatime 0 2 LABEL=arch64boot /mnt/arch64/boot ext2 defaults,noauto,relatime 0 0 LABEL=arch64root /mnt/arch64/root jfs defaults,noauto,relatime 0 0 For ext2 you can give the the label without the need of formating the partiton (-L option in the most cases for mkfs.*) but for the other filesystems i don't know this exactly. Lately some distros start using UUID but i'm personaly not a fan of this because they be "not so much readable". -) See you, Attila