From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKUnG-00074G-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:05:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26E4AE0616; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C7CE0616 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so3642769ewy.34 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:05:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=52Nwgq4GhmOIvBKN0HoJUSjFiA9QI2UVqM3V2PEI3TY=; b=nHsyUloAeWDc3Rk4tL2J4QdcKA9GSbOUBL35UTiB6uvYMWrB4QtauIfYlZ6miqU60e OEAiW8DiGMqnRL2WLJF1D7X4W7GbR46K/iVIVQnTlRqiofoYZ7xOLk1Gx0aQ7Uvhm0vU CAg2HoTYh36Xatf7It0g8gy0pAUnKsoNSrBcY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dyqluwI2cPXX5/kk41FkTa2pMM4JnBJQTLZVO3xFrfmMccyPmsJ/TAhv5eRdpKQlIA miF8tUghWjW0OjivJV3w4jzWPjbPoAzr5KCLR8YaaynCRDgxF+u2eU/oyC0pwAHITM2Y wdGVc7DVQkPuMldawSFayeTKydn+amiRSENlg= Received: by 10.210.119.16 with SMTP id r16mr5492538ebc.40.1246097156391; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm4543437ewy.90.2009.06.27.03.05.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Seek advice: converting Sabayon to Gentoo ? Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:05:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.30r4; KDE/4.3.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <7bef1f890906260637u1cc88913k714618744a26401d@mail.gmail.com> <7bef1f890906261728m2eaa958ch874b512e5b514da@mail.gmail.com> <200906271121.05999.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906271121.05999.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906271205.51855.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c494e8d8-6a2b-4f7e-b604-55b944c272f3 X-Archives-Hash: b2b42e6dd5f1844ec6eea7d269a86d5c On Samstag 27 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:28:59 Alan E. Davis wrote: > > Perhaps I can just edit the existing /etc/fstab, using device names. The > > device numbering is inconsistent between GNU/Linux distros under the > > (what I presume to be) new scheme, with all devices names as /dev/sdX . > > Default kernel names are like that deliberately. The driver assigns a > unique name in the order that devices are found, and the name depends only > on whatever the author decided to give it. If you use the modern ATA > subsystem to drive your disks, they get called sd*. The older drivers > non-SCSI still call disks hd*. > > This way you get a naming scheme that is guaranteed to be unique, but with > no other guarantees whatsoever (not even consistency). It's the simplest > thing that could possibly work (and a very sane engineering choice > actually). > > If that doesn't suit your needs, you can customize it with udev rules, or > mount by device UUID, or mount by filesystem label. or you create a software raid setup and mount mdX. Since the kernel autoassembles the stuff you don't have to care about sdX or hdX or whateverX ;)