Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-02 Thread fred roller
Also consider the physical aspect of the MB's priority detection sata1-4 is first in sequence followed by USB 1-* when Linux and/or bios puts everything together. So, any spinner disk or ssd in sata 1 slot will be detected as sda, sata 2 slot as sdb, etc /then/ any usb gets picked up in seque

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-02 Thread Mark Haney
I have a similar setup at home. I have a dozen or so boot drives with various OSes on them that I can throw into my primary server. Mostly Linux Distros, BSD and a single Windows SSD for gaming (yeah, I know...). In my case I have a couple of non-SSD drives in this server that are data only. Tha

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Tod Merley
I do use separate pictures in each desktop for ease of identification. It would probably be helpful to use partitian names. [note: uuid's scrambled for security] so here is a simple way to find the disk in use and it's unambiguous UUID tod@tod-1204:~$

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Joseph Loo
On 09/01/2016 04:58 AM, fred roller wrote: > You could change the desktop for each system ;) low tech but effective > in knowing which system you are on. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Ian Chapman > wrote: > > On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: >

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread fred roller
You could change the desktop for each system ;) low tech but effective in knowing which system you are on. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: > > Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? >> (I know I can try to rea

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Ian Chapman
On 01/09/16 14:51, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? (I know I can try to read the product name of the device from which boot was done, but in many cases this is not enough to know straight away whether it is SSD or not. cat /sys/block/sdX/qu

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/31/2016 11:51 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Is there a way to know whether to boot was done from SSD or not ? (I know I can try to read the product name of the device from which boot was done, but in many cases this is not enough to know straight away whether it is SSD or not. Why not simply re

Booting from SSD or not

2016-08-31 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi all, I have several machines in my lab, all of them running Fedora. Some of the have both SSD and non SSD drivers. Since the setup is dynamic (sometimes I transfer disks from machine to machine), there are cases that the SSD drive is one machine is disconnected/moved to a different machine, and