Hi Adrian yes this will do. Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx? Is this correct? thanks Jobst On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:49:38PM +0300, Adrian Sevcenco (Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch) wrote: > On 08/23/12 12:13, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > Is there a way to tell the kernel in which order to load the drives > > and assign the drive order in a way that the new drives are assigned > > SDC and SDD and the old drives get SDA and SDB? > use UUID= in fstab (lsblk -o NAME,KNAME,UUID) and you will get rid of > all this headaches (if you have software raid the assembling is done > internally based on UUID so you don't have to worry about mdraid) > > HTH, > Adrian > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng. [Anon] | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia