John R Pierce wrote: > Paul wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:27 -0400, Bobby wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 27 October 2007 12:20:31 Israel Garcia wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, I bought an USB external hdd (500GB) to make my >>>> backups using dump... but, sometimes my sever >>>> recognize the hdd device /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc... my >>>> question is: How can I assign a fixed device for >>>> example /dev/sdc to my hdd? remember I use some >>>> scripts to do my backup and I am getting errors >>>> because the device changes from sdb to sdc and >>>> >>> I would imagine by manually mounting it >>> >> >> Ummm no, that is the problem I imagine, the device changes so it can't >> be mounted in his script. >> >> I can't think of a solution right off hand. >> > > I suppose you could put a label on the drive (with tune2fs), then > mount it by LABEL=xxxx... I dunno what else to suggest. > Another option could be to create a custom UDEV rule for the device > linux's crappy way of handling disk device names is one of my bigger > gripes about it. its really messy in a SAN environment where > there's several storage controllers. /dev/sdf could be almost > -anything-. I prefer the c1t1d1 notation of traditional Unix > systems like Solaris, although there still can be issues identifying > the channel #s > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >