on 10/19/2007 10:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. I was thinking, have *no* hands on experience. of all of the complaints/comments on the latest 'thing'. The USB hard drive. >> 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. As I said. I have no experience with any of this. But thanks for the explanation. -- David
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