On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:43:04PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:58:28 -0500 > Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I just realized that sometime fairly recently my usb2 > > drive I use for backups has stopped showing up as > > /dev/sdc and instead shows up as /dev/sdd (with no > > device named /dev/sdc anywhere). > > Actually, it was weirder that just the name change. > A "df" command showed /backup already mounted on /dev/sdc5 > and the free space about what I'd expect, but if I did an > "ls" on /backup, there was nothing there, and if I > did an "fdisk -l", it reported /dev/sdd, but not /dev/sdc. > > It's like the name changed sometime after the system was already > up and the drive mounted. I've seen this happen -- I've just assumed I manually mounted something (usually on top of something else) instead of letting the automounter handle it. Maybe I'll pay more attention next time it happens and see if I can figure out what happens. Kurt -- Be frank and explicit with your lawyer ... it is his business to confuse the issue afterwards.
