Take a look at documentation in the the hdutils package. I believe the developer has done something very similar.
--Brian Dave Cinege wrote: > > I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. > What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? > (actually maybe just lilo) > > Problem: partition and drive shift > Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days > > How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates > entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct > major/minor. > > Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that drive > on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with > out reconfiguring. This sucks. > > Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux > partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the > partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a > /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor. > > If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's > physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc. > > Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe > others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the > partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you > don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named correctly. > > I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
