David Boles wrote:
Hmm... The drive letters will change when you add or remove drives. But most people that add and remove drives have some idea of what it is that they are doing. And they don't do it as often as they put on or remove their shoes. I have *never* done this, physically add/remove drives thing, in an installed Linux myself but I would be willing to bet that Linux, any brand, would get confused too.
With the old ide /dev/hdx notation, drives stayed where you put them according to the controller and cable or jumper position. That is, the primary drive on the first controller is hda, the slave on the second controler is hdd whether or not there is anything added or removed in between. With scsi it is dynamic, with /dev/sd? devices added in the order they are detected so if you add/remove early in the controller or drive select chain everything else moves.
That is what the $PATH, in Linux or Windows, is for I think. ;-)
No, you always mount the filesystems under the same names in Linux, but that moves the problem to the grub configuration and /etc/fstab where you tell it what partitions to mount. Auto-detected labels on filesystems that support them are supposed to solve this problem, but a default install puts the same labels on every installation so as soon as you try to move and re-use some drives the problem is even worse.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
