partition name changing after each reboot/restart

toledano · 12-16-2008, 12:51 PM

hi,

I have 2 hd, and 4 partitions.

now. let say for the example that the 30gb is at /media/disk and the 20 gb is at /media/disk-2/.

sometimes (sometimes it doenst) when i reboot, the partition location is changing.
meaning, the 20 gb is at /media/disk/ and 30gb /media/disk-2/

now, normally I wouldnt care, but I use a program that is configured with a specific location I got a problem.
(like ktorrent and the download dir..)

hope you understand the problem.

got a solution?

thanks.

farslayer · 12-16-2008, 01:39 PM

mount the drives with their UUID's rather than the drive names..

Code:

mhepler@it-etch:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-11-24 04:02 24b1bd67-0de9-4782-9644-a088a434c562 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-12-14 23:47 55D123D9E79ABF54 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-11-24 04:02 70165487-7f4f-4a6c-9332-07d907b63976 -> ../../sda1

old /etc/fstab (backup this file before making changes)

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda6       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/sdb1	/media/usbdisk	auto	user,noauto	0	0

would become

new /etc/fstab file using uuid's for consistent drive mapping

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
uuid=70165487-7f4f-4a6c-9332-07d907b63976       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
uuid=24b1bd67-0de9-4782-9644-a088a434c562       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
uuid=55D123D9E79ABF54	/media/usbdisk	auto	user,noauto	0	0

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...tab-with-uuid/

toledano · 12-20-2008, 02:28 PM

sorry for the late response..

thanks for your help