Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> 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. <snip> >> When I build, our PXEboot ks partitions and labels the partitions. When >> I add or replace, I make the partition, the fs, and e2label them. I've >> gotten to really appreciate labeling. I hate the UUIDs - they're >> ludicrously too long, and bear no relationship to what device they are, >> or where they go. > > What happens when you move the disks around among machines? Or don't > you ever do that after they contain data? Other than offline backups, we don't move disks, other than to replace. mark