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From: Handover Phist on 10 Jan 2010 14:24 From the changelogs: ----------- New kernels... and this deserves a mention/warning: the last bits of the "old" IDE/ATA system have been removed now. Everything should be using the libata based drivers now, so if you have any drives that are currently running as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., when you reboot with these kernels all drives will be renamed as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. If you had any /dev/sd* already, they might get renamed. Adjustments may be required in /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, the initrd, and elsewhere. Good luck! ---------- I have 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives. How the hell am I going to tell them apart now? 3 are 80 gig and the one (my Slackware drive) is 500G. Should be a fun upgrade once 13.1 comes out! -- "It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either." -- Kevin White, mayor of Boston www.websterscafe.com
From: VWWall on 10 Jan 2010 15:54 Handover Phist wrote: > From the changelogs: > > ----------- > New kernels... and this deserves a mention/warning: the last bits of the > "old" IDE/ATA system have been removed now. Everything should be > using > the libata based drivers now, so if you have any drives that are > currently > running as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., when you reboot with these > kernels all > drives will be renamed as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. If you had any > /dev/sd* > already, they might get renamed. Adjustments may be required in > /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, the initrd, and elsewhere. Good luck! > ---------- > > I have 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives. How the hell am I going to tell them > apart now? 3 are 80 gig and the one (my Slackware drive) is 500G. Should > be a fun upgrade once 13.1 comes out! > Every partition, when formatted, is given a unique UUID. Use: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to find it. You can set up fstab using that, if it's not done already during install. To identify partitions, (drives), it's handy to give each drive partition a meaningful label using: e2label /dev/hdb1 pubsw or tune2fs -L pubsw /dev/hdb1. Each label can be up to 16 characters long and can be their mount points. See: http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html -- Virg Wall
From: john on 11 Jan 2010 08:52 On Jan 10, 3:54 pm, VWWall <vw...(a)large.invalid> wrote: > Handover Phist wrote: > > From the changelogs: > > > ----------- > > New kernels... and this deserves a mention/warning: the last bits of the > > "old" IDE/ATA system have been removed now. Everything should be > > using > > the libata based drivers now, so if you have any drives that are > > currently > > running as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., when you reboot with these > > kernels all > > drives will be renamed as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. If you had any > > /dev/sd* > > already, they might get renamed. Adjustments may be required in > > /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, the initrd, and elsewhere. Good luck! > > ---------- > > > I have 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives. How the hell am I going to tell them > > apart now? 3 are 80 gig and the one (my Slackware drive) is 500G. Should > > be a fun upgrade once 13.1 comes out! > > Every partition, when formatted, is given a unique UUID. Use: > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to find it. You can set up fstab using that, if > it's not done already during install. To identify partitions, (drives), > it's handy to give each drive partition a meaningful label using: > e2label /dev/hdb1 pubsw or tune2fs -L pubsw /dev/hdb1. Each label can > be up to 16 characters long and can be their mount points. > > See:http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html > > -- > Virg Wall MY new computer uses SATA drives. To copy things from my older ATA drives I bought an external drive case with a USB connection. The drive in the computer is called /dev/sda and the partitions are called /dev/sda1 etc. The old ATA drive in the external case is called /dev/sdb and the partitions are /dev/sdb1 etc. When searching out the partitions etc. cfdisk is your friend. I mount partitions to directories with the same name e.g.: mount /dev/sda1 /sda1. Saves confusion. The DVD drive still uses an ATA connection and is known as /dev/hda. It is aliased as /dev/cdrom HTH John Culleton
From: Helmut Hullen on 11 Jan 2010 11:10 Hallo, VWWall, Du meintest am 10.01.10: >> I have 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives. How the hell am I going to tell them >> apart now? 3 are 80 gig and the one (my Slackware drive) is 500G. >> Should be a fun upgrade once 13.1 comes out! > Every partition, when formatted, is given a unique UUID. Use: > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to find it. And for people who don't use "udev": blkid /dev/<partition> > To identify partitions, > (drives), it's handy to give each drive partition a meaningful label > using: e2label /dev/hdb1 pubsw or tune2fs -L pubsw /dev/hdb1. Each > label can be up to 16 characters long and can be their mount points. > See: http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html I prefer labelling, but labelling doesn't work with (p.e.) vfat partitions. "blkid" also shows labels (if set). My special problem: labelling doesn't work with the "boot = /dev/xyz" entry in "/etc/lilo.conf". Viele Gruesse Helmut "Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
From: Grant on 11 Jan 2010 14:38
On 11 Jan 2010 17:10:00 +0100, Helmut(a)Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote: >Hallo, VWWall, > >Du meintest am 10.01.10: > >>> I have 2 ATA and 2 SATA drives. How the hell am I going to tell them >>> apart now? 3 are 80 gig and the one (my Slackware drive) is 500G. >>> Should be a fun upgrade once 13.1 comes out! > >> Every partition, when formatted, is given a unique UUID. Use: >> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to find it. > >And for people who don't use "udev": > > blkid /dev/<partition> > >> To identify partitions, >> (drives), it's handy to give each drive partition a meaningful label >> using: e2label /dev/hdb1 pubsw or tune2fs -L pubsw /dev/hdb1. Each >> label can be up to 16 characters long and can be their mount points. > >> See: http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html > >I prefer labelling, but labelling doesn't work with (p.e.) vfat >partitions. >"blkid" also shows labels (if set). > >My special problem: labelling doesn't work with the "boot = /dev/xyz" >entry in "/etc/lilo.conf". That's very odd, 'cos I thought your special problem was the missing "-- " about here. >"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". ;^) Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au |