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Furyhunter

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From: Central Texas

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 13

Hard drive partition device files not consistent between reboots

For a reason I'm not completely certain of, the Hardware Abstraction Layer is causing my partition file descriptors to be different between bootups - causing a plethora of fstab-related issues.

I have two hard drives in my computer, the primary one according to the bios being where GRUB and Arch are installed to.  Ironically, when it works, this drive is given "sdb." /etc/fstab is written to mount the partitions on sdb.

The secondary hard drive has Windows 7 installed to it. This drive, when Arch Linux boots up properly, is considered "sda."

However, half the time since enabling the HAL daemon, sda can become sdb and vice versa - causing partition mounting to screw up, naturally.

I'll also note that attempting to mount sda2 (windows 7) in fstab causes the Arch drive to always be sda.  Rather frustrating, seeing as how I use symlinks to the Windows 7 user folders in my Arch user folders (Documents, Pictures, etc).

Any help, please? :E

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neddie_seagoon

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 121

Re: Hard drive partition device files not consistent between reboots

Check: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

Furyhunter

Member

From: Central Texas

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 13

Re: Hard drive partition device files not consistent between reboots

Thank you, neddie_seagoon!  That was exactly what I needed.

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