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 1RAoZa-0003Pw-Pr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:53:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0114521C22A; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC6721C1EB for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywt2 with SMTP id 2so5368216ywt.40 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UjrBAb5+Ld3/JSG1GgzMw3JtnTUARCqTC9krlWVTZ+0=; b=l/Ty3GnPZG4YRiTmXmjoBruX2otLKd+Bf2RrmyERi1tiBZFVzgzvnEMj6w0K3XyJSS a6p/Kwr4Us5AjwH80GpXDtiI1UyudiA+S15ZfrQUMEZeJW0a2PTvBC+izzSaB7+hq2vT jPZW1PB9sPt4jfCZXstlRxg6dzzkaHeNn/WHE= Received: by 10.236.186.35 with SMTP id v23mr2020544yhm.80.1317671198886; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-200.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s77sm16732226yhe.22.2011.10.03.12.46.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8A111C.7060804@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:46:36 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cc93ed822893d13ea8497ccff2998eb2 Grant Edwards wrote: > 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? > I went the LABEL direction too. Here is a example fstab, mine actually. LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 LABEL=var /var ext3 defaults 0 2 LABEL=portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults 0 2 LABEL=home /home reiserfs defaults 0 2 LABEL=data /data ext4 defaults 0 2 You can set that when your put the file system on or use the file system tools to set it without formating the partition. It is usually -L