Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:52 AM mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >>> Le 28/02/2019 à 04:12, Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : >>>> I want to lock in the SDA/SDB/SDC for my drives >>> >>> In short : use UUIDs or labels instead of hardcoding /dev/sdX. >>> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/persistent_block_device_naming >> >> Yeah - I strongly believe in labels, given the fact that *no* one can >> remember a UUID.... > > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid > (copy) > (paste) That is, of course, assuming you have a running system, that you haven't replaced a hard drive, an MDraid's not giving you trouble, etc. And oh, I put that in another system, and it's also got partition one labled boot... so? I'm not trying to boot off of it, I'm going to mount it on /mnt. No, I dislike UUIDs. I dislike, strongly, lots of extra typing that doesn't really get me anything. MAYBE, if you're in a Google or Amazon datacenter, with 500,000 physical servers (I phone interviewed with them 10 years ago)... but short of that? Nope. mark