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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev Migration and SCSI
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On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:50, Ian Brandt wrote:
> 1) How can I tell what the new name is going to be?

I'd imagine /dev/sdXY will exist under both udev and devfs, and be the sa=
me,=20
they certainly always have done for me.

> 2) As I'm doing this upgrade remotely, how can I set up to fail back
> to my udev-less 2.4.25 kernel should 2.6.13 still fail to come up? =A0I=
n
> other words, if I change fstab to be udev specific won't that leave me
> dead in the water?

fstab doesn't have to take block devices, it can take labels too, you cou=
ld=20
look into labeling your partitions.

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Mike Williams

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