Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Jason Lim
> > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) > > will be renamed to (/dev/hda) after the reboot. As i want /dev/hdb to be > that's EXACTLY what linux does for IDE drives. the slave drive on the primary > IDE controller will *always* be /dev/hdb, regardless of whet

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Arnd Vehling
Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: and there are no raw devices on linux AFAIK. >> /dev/hd? ARE the raw devices. craig In the bsdish slang, raw devices are character devices, so /dev/hd? are not exactly raw devices, but block devices. Not only in "bsdish" slang. Most other Unix bo

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Arnd Vehling
Hi, first: thanx to everyone who answered! Craig Sanders wrote: >> Arnd Vehling wrote Another question. How can i copy two identical discs _including_ the boot block? "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" doesnt do it don't use dd for that. set up a raid-1 mirror instead. it's easy to do, only about

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Jason Lim
> > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) > > will be renamed to (/dev/hda) after the reboot. As i want /dev/hdb to be > that's EXACTLY what linux does for IDE drives. the slave drive on the primary > IDE controller will *always* be /dev/hdb, regardless of whet

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:54:19AM +0200, Arnd Vehling wrote: does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda)

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:54:19AM +0200, Arnd Vehling wrote: > does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux > system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will > be named like this. > > /dev/hda > /dev/hdb > > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) th

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:54:19AM +0200, Arnd Vehling wrote: does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:54:19AM +0200, Arnd Vehling wrote: > does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux > system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will > be named like this. > > /dev/hda > /dev/hdb > > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) th

FW: help

2004-03-31 Thread Martie Lam
Also I forgot to mention that this is 5 minutes down time for every time no ping fails. ping of DEMOMYLAN failed at Mon Mar 9 11:01:13 2004 à each message ping failed means 5 minutes down time by default.       From: Martie Lam Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:31 AM To: 'debian

FW: help

2004-03-31 Thread Martie Lam
Also I forgot to mention that this is 5 minutes down time for every time no ping fails. ping of DEMOMYLAN failed at Mon Mar 9 11:01:13 2004 à each message ping failed means 5 minutes down time by default.       From: Martie Lam Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:31 AM To: '[EMAIL

RE: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Drees
Arnd Vehling wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux > system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will > be named like this. > > /dev/hda > /dev/hdb > > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the seco

RE: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Drees
Arnd Vehling wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux > system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will > be named like this. > > /dev/hda > /dev/hdb > > If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the seco

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Watkins
Arnd Vehling wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) will be renamed to (/dev/hda) aft

Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Watkins
Arnd Vehling wrote: Hello, does anyone know how to fix the device name on a debian linux system? For example. If i have two IDE hardisks, the devices will be named like this. /dev/hda /dev/hdb If i now must remove the first harddisk (/dev/hda) the second (/dev/hdb) will be renamed to (/dev/hda) a