Karl Larsen wrote:
It can be harder than this, though. Consider what happens after you
have been doing this for a while and are re-using disks that already
have auto-detect md devices on them and/or filesystem labels that may
conflict with ones you are using. Some of the quirkier disk
controllers can also map a volume into the position where it was
configured, even if you move it or move to a different machine. You
might pull a disk from the 2nd position on one machine, move it to the
first position on a different machine and add an unconfigured disk in
the 2nd position and have the 2nd drive come up as /dev/sda.
But, as long as your new drive hasn't been used, an 'fdisk -l' will
show you which does not have partitions.
Les you must have had a real hard time with something. I have not moved
a hard drive in 4 years. I don't need to do that here at home. When I
was working years ago I hired a expert to do all those things. I could
still hire an expert but have more fun learning to be one.
I'm supposed to be the expert... Things are a little different when you
need to keep hundreds of old machines running all the time plus
keeping up with all the new stuff. I swap disks around all the time and
a lot of them had linux raid and labeled filesystems in their previous
use too. For a long time, fedora would refuse to boot if grub.conf or
fstab mentioned a label that was duplicated - and installs used the same
label names every time so duplication was almost certain. Something
just smells wrong about that - or any form of second-guessing which disk
is which.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
