[CentOS] Ordering of disks in laptop

On 5/5/2014 11:08 AM, H wrote:
> Being a Centos newbie, I am not sure why Centos calls the first SSD sdb
> and the second one in the Ultrabay sda? It would seem to me that the
> first one, the one replacing the original harddisk, should be the main
> one and be called sda but clearly there is something I don't understand.
> In the BIOS the SSD replacing the harddisk has a higher boot order
> priority then the SSD replacing the DVD-drive.

the kernel pays zero attention to the things you've mentioned.    it 
enumerates the IO controllers in an arbitrary order, and assigns the 
devices in the order it finds them


> Suggestions?

mount your volumes with labels rather than device names.



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