John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/09/12 6:09 AM, John Doe wrote: >> Works fine here... >> On some PCs/servers the key is sdb... > > the days of relying on /dev/sd? are long past. Heh. See the point of a related thread, where mkswap -L did. not. work. No label... > > 'scsi' devices renumber themselves on every boot. case in point, So we use labels. I *loathe* UUIDs. Quick, tell my yours on one system without looking (as would be the case if the drive crashed). <snip> I've even labelled software RAID partitions. mark