On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: >> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at mailcolloid.de> >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> With the default settings in my Supermicro motherboard CentOS calls my >>> SATA drive /dev/hda. If in bios setup I change 'Native Mode >>> Operation' from auto to 'Serial ATA' it boots up calling the drive >>> /dev/sda. I keep thinking its likely better under /dev/sda not? Any >>> problem switching it to that after install? >> >> If you have setup lvm and use labels for mounting your filesystem, the >> change should be hassle free. Otherwise you have to check grub.conf >> for the root parameter and change blockdevices in /etc/fstab. > > I don't use LVM yet, but I found that using hard-coded /dev/sda?? or > /dev/hda?? in /etc/fstab is not recommended. > > If LVM supports them, partition labels are the way to go. A partition label is a filesystem property so you can give an LV's filesystem a label if you choose to, but this isn't necessary because LV names are persistent.