[CentOS] add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

Thu Sep 29 21:16:16 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David C. Miller
<millerdc at fusion.gat.com> wrote:
>
> This type of issue is why relying on /dev/sdX is bad. Mounting based on uuid or label when available is best. Unfortunately, there are controller cards that present all disks as the same uuid. It makes using mdadm that can only see /dev/sdX a pain to use.

So how do you propose getting a uuid or label on a disk in the first
place if you can't identify which is which physically?  And how do you
know which to move when you want the content in some other box?

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com