On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 08:03:46PM +0000, ch_e...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi > Could someone please advise me the best way to ensure a particular hard disk > (SATA) always appears at a specific device node, i.e how can I be sure > /dev/sdb for example is always going to refer to a specific drive even if > others are added or removed? > UUIDs only apply to partitions, is there no way to do a similar thing for a > physical disk? > I have some existing partitioned and formatted disks in a server which I want > to plug into another machine and move the services over to a VM
That's a WWN -- look in /dev/disk/by-id/* It identifies the disk itself, plus a -part* for partitions on it. -dsr-
