Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:36:46AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/11/25 8:58 AM, songbird wrote: > > remember that things can change between boots so any > > mentions of specific devices may be out of date the next > > boot. > > > > as an example my /dev/sda can change to /dev/sd[bcd] ... > > I leave such unchanged for years at a time ;}
The kernel decides the order at boot time. You probably do not have years of uptime. It tends to decide on a steady state, but I do for example have systems with 8 drives in of different kinds and between the Debian 13 installer and the Debian 13 installed kernel on first boot they re-ordered themselves completely. Which was fine because Debian these days is installed to cope with that sort of thing. The various directories under /dev/disk/by-* will give you various kinds of stable identifiers. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
