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unilx

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From: Fredericton,Canada

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 183

Partition name changes

Hi
I have 3 harddrives 2 sata and 1 ide and a usb modem  and when i install  linux and run fdisk -l my ide it is labled as sda,my sata drives are sdb,sdc and my usb is sdd1.when i finished installing and boot up linux  i get filestem check failed,and the only way i can login is to disable the filestem check. I checked /etc/fstab and it says my linux install, on my ide drive is still on sda like it's supposed to be but when i reboot  linux, fdisk -l says the drive has changed from sda to sdc or sdb.so i guess what im asking, is there a command or a file i can edit to force linux to see my linux ide as sda everytime

Thanks

Last edited by unilx (2009-10-31 05:09:15)

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Partition name changes

Use UUID or file system labels in both grub and fstab.

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munkyeetr

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From: Merritt, BC

Registered: 2008-08-07

Posts: 83

Re: Partition name changes

Sorry, code tags don't seem to be working, or I would have used them...

I would try using the UUID in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/sda...

In the terminal type: blkid

and you will get a list similar to this:

/dev/sda1: UUID="4A622D3C622D2DDF" LABEL="Vista" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="3e51dc6a-86bc-4ae4-97b5-dd0ba57f955e"
/dev/sda3: UUID="010d621a-5291-4228-a18b-be362b5140da" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="48d767d2-f223-453b-bf68-fdfc56a7c28b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="66d18400-2a66-4359-ba5d-a46f6a3af63e" TYPE="ext3"

Figure out which partition or drive is your root drive, and configure your /etc/fstab entry like this:

UUID=<uuid>      /media/sda1     ext3    defaults,umask=007,gid=46         0       0

where <uuid> is the ID you got from blkid output, and just keep the rest of the settings as they are.

Might solve the problem...

Munky

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