[CentOS] USB install annoyances

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Jan 9 18:33:57 UTC 2012


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.

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