Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards:
> Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not
> detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and
> /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong places
> (/dev/sda seems consistent, but I don't know why).
> 
> What's the recommended way to fix this?
> 

Mount by UUID or label. In /etc/fstab, specify UUID=foo or LABEL=bar
instead of /dev/sdx1. You can current UUIDs and labels with `ls -l
/dev/disk/by-uuid` and `ls -l /dev/disk/by-label`, respectively.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp