Nope sir. Assume never the same device twice and no control over those devices, so UUID is out of the question. thank you, - csawyer From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers Sent: 01 April 2011 09:24 To: CentOS mailing list Cc: Cal Sawyer Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Cal Sawyer <Cal.Sawyer at artsalliancemedia.com> wrote: 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. Rudi Ahlers: You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is attached to the drive's UID (I think?) so even if you move the drive to anther port it will still be accessible via the same LABEL > Unfortunately, the removable devices are utterly random and rarely if ever the same device seen twice. 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 :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110401/549049f3/attachment-0005.html>