On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 mentions of specific devices may be out of date the next 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. > Red Hat has a pretty good article about stable names for disks [1]. Debian's page is not as good [2]. [1] < https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/managing_file_systems/assembly_overview-of-persistent-naming-attributes_managing-file-systems > [2] <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs04.en.html> Jeff
