[SOLVED] harddrives assigned in /dev change on boot up

Arch Stanton · 01-25-2014, 03:40 PM

I'm having an issue where I can't mount drives with fstab because the drives seem to be randomly assigned in /dev everytime I reboot.

I go to gparted get /dev/sdd1 for example and mount it with /etc/fstab
then reboot and mount fails on start up.

i'm stumped on this one, any ideas?

Setting up a new install of elementary os btw

camorri · 01-25-2014, 04:01 PM

You can use the UUID for the partition to mount the drive. Then it doesn't matter if the device name changes. Here is a short tutorial.

-->http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-f...-update-fstab/

Arch Stanton · 01-25-2014, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

You can use the UUID for the partition to mount the drive. Then it doesn't matter if the device name changes. Here is a short tutorial.

-->http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-f...-update-fstab/

I had to use blkid because i don't have vol_id installed but that did the trick ;}

Thank you !!!!!