On Wed, October 18, 2006 11:32, Geert Stappers said: > P: /block/hda > N: hda > S: disk/by-id/ata-IC25N020ATMR04-0_MRG108K1HJSLPH > S: disk/by-path/pci-0.0001f000:ata-4-ide-0:0 >... > I think that "by-path" is the presistent thing I want (expect that it is > long)
I think in general the by-id path would be better since that'd still work if you plug the harddrive into a different port on the IDE controller or change controllers... As udev is always installed with current d-i, the necessary change would be to generate a fstab which uses the by-id paths instead of the "UUID=" or "LABEL=" stuff, like so: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-IC25N020ATMR04-0_MRG108K1HJSLPH / ext3 defaults 1 1 This approach requires little to no changes to initramfs scripts which do not (yet?) understand LABEL= and UUID= syntax (like the cryptoroot scripts) and makes it quite simple to see which disk fstab refers to (ls -al "/dev/long-path"). And of course I've already nagged Frans about it on IRC :) -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
