On 04/23/2012 09:02 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> How to get the USB external drives to be detected in always the same >> order, so that they always get the same "name"? /dev/sdX fixed to them? >> That way, the LVM wont be messed... > > Perhaps you can use UUIDs for that like Fedora is already doing. See man lvm does that anyway, does it not ? ( or has done in recent memory ) the drive ordering will not matter as long as the bios isnt mapping the usb disk as sda and/or trying to inject them into boot ordering I suspect Mihamina is trying to fix a non-existant problem :) - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc