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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Nope sir. Assume never the same device twice and no control
over those devices, so UUID is out of the question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>- csawyer</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rudi
Ahlers<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 April 2011 09:24<br>
<b>To:</b> CentOS mailing list<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Cal Sawyer<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM,
Cal Sawyer <<a href="mailto:Cal.Sawyer@artsalliancemedia.com">Cal.Sawyer@artsalliancemedia.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Apologies in advance for
excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode
so got them all in one lump.<br>
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Rudi Ahlers:<o:p></o:p></p>
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You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is attached to the<br>
drive's UID (I think?) so even if you move the drive to anther port it will<br>
still be accessible via the same LABEL<o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'>> Unfortunately, the removable devices are
utterly random and rarely if ever the same device seen twice.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Yes, that's why you assign a
LABEL to the device :) If the same hard drive gets used on the same server, but
on random ports every time then the LABEL will still stay the same. I have a
similar setup where I mount about 40-odd USB drives to a server on a regular
basis. They each have their own mount points in /mnt/usb-hdd/xxxxxxxxxx and
irrespective of which drive I connect to which USB port, or on which order,
they all get mounted where they're supposed to :) <o:p></o:p></p>
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Kind Regards<br>
Rudi Ahlers<br>
SoftDux<br>
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