On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 12:08 -0600, Nick Miller wrote: > Hello All, > > I am currently running debian woody with a stock kernel (2.4.20-k6). I > have two USB hard drives that I want to be able to swap for a backup. > When I plug in the first drive, it gets the assignment of /dev/sdd1. Now > I want to be able to unplug this drive and put in the other and have the > computer assign the newly plugged in drive with the same device assignment > as the previously plugged in drive. When trying this though, the next > disk will get the assignment of /dev/sde1 even without the other one > plugged in. > > I run fedora core 3 with 2.6.7 at home and for some reason, it doesn't > do this. > Do you know if there are any arguments that I can put in the > modules.conf or is this just how kernel 2.4.x behaves? > > Any help would be appreciated! > Nick
Upgrading to Sarge, and using a 2.6 kernel, and udev will allow you to to have these drives as, for example, /dev/backup. Then, /etc/fstab would have a reference to /dev/backup instead of /dev/sd?1. Very, very useful. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement." John F Kennedy
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