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#1 2006-10-16 10:03:17
- brain0
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New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
Hey folks,
I created a new howto for you to make your system more reliable in the future and/or make use of some fancy new udev features. Read the new Persistant block device naming HOWTO.
Have fun.
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#2 2006-10-16 19:08:35
- tomk
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
Read it. Good stuff, thanks.
One question, though - do I need to do something to get /dev/disk/by-label? At the moment, I have this:
$ ll /dev/disk/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2006-10-16 21:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 0 2006-10-16 19:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-10-16 21:34 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-10-16 21:34 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2006-10-16 21:34 by-uuidOffline
#3 2006-10-16 19:12:57
- brain0
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
There has to be at least one disk with a label for by-label to show up.
BTW, don't add the new names to the bootloader yet. I thought klibc-udev was fixed to support it, but right now it isn't. I hope I can get the proper fixes into 101-3.
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#4 2006-10-16 19:36:04
- phrakture
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
There has to be at least one disk with a label for by-label to show up.
BTW, don't add the new names to the bootloader yet. I thought klibc-udev was fixed to support it, but right now it isn't. I hope I can get the proper fixes into 101-3.
Did I break it? :oops:
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#5 2006-10-16 19:36:31
- tomk
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
Thanks - that makes sense.
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#6 2006-10-16 19:55:30
- lucke
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
xfs_admin -L label <device> works for xfs, reiserfstune -l label <device> for reiserfs and jfs_tune -L label <device> for jfs.
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#7 2006-10-16 20:24:41
- brain0
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
@lucke: thanks, added it. btw, it's a wiki, you could have added the commands yourself
@phrakture: yes, you did 
klibc-udev 101-3 should work with by-uuid and by-label now, I'll test myself later.
EDIT: Okay, tested, works now.
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#8 2006-10-16 21:05:56
- yankees26
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Re: New HOWTO: Persistant block device naming
SUCCESS!!! I got it to work, just don't be dumb like me and forget to rebuild for initrd images.
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