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I constantly get my hardrives mixed up. I have sda and sdb.
Sda contains 4 partitions, 2 ntfs (Win boot + ntfs data) (Sda1 -ntfs , Sda2 - ntfs, sda3 - ext3, sda4 - swap). this hard drive is also hd0 and setup to kick in grub.
Another hardrive is Sdb with one partition.
Everytime my computer loads grub ok, and when I start archlinux, when I get to the point where [ok] [ok] starts, I get an error that partition sda3 does not exist or invalid filesistem bla bla. this is when my partitions got mixed up, sdA became sdB and vice versa. So I have to reboot couple times, till correct letter gets attached to hard drive how can i setup so sdA always was sdA?
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yes thats what I said, sometimes harddrive is sda, sometimes same hard drive is sdb
[evil@homebox ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4b134b13
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2295 18434556 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2296 28521 210660345 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 28522 30162 13181332+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 30163 30401 1919767+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 2296 28521 210660313+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 484521 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x49074907
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 484521 244198552+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
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There's something very wrong with your partition table!
There are at most 4 primary partitions - if you use more than 4 (like in your case), then /dev/sda4 is an extended partition which spans the remainder of the disk - thus:
1) /dev/sda1 through /dev/sda3 are ok - they are primary partitions
2) /dev/sda4 should be an extended partition
3) /dev/sda5 should be 'swap' and /dev/sda6 should be hpfs/ntfs
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perbh, the extended partition looks to be sda2.
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ooops - sorry ... itchy fingers were faster than the eyes .. :-(
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