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I recently rebuilt a system by replacing the boot drive.
and installe opensuse 12.1 64bit from the dvd.
all is well.
but here is a thing I also have 3 1TB drives that are raided together in this box.
When I did the install mentioned above these (all 3 ) were unPowered so they were not 'seen'
I have looked at my fstab and did some googling..
i am rather certain that i need to add ( loosley speaking )
mount by id##bigIdNum### 1 1.
so my Q is how do do a 'probe' to see that id num
also.
i have a copy of my PRevious fstab..same machine , smae raid cntrler same 3 drives... would the id ###bigIdNum be the same? seems like it should be.
I thought the uuid would be the same .
thanks for the word.
also -- i would like to take a moment to say how absolutely wonderful it is to ask a Q and get a response from germany and the UK.....
I love this world!
also -- i would like to take a moment to say how absolutely wonderful it is to ask a Q and get a response from germany and the UK.....
I love this world!
This is obviously a much easier way of seeing what's going on.
Also, I like to set up my various removable devices as I want. If you plug them in and run "/dev/disk/by-id/" you can find the name, create the entry in "fstab" and create the directory "/media/SanDisk16gb" (for example - see below).
There is a problem, however, with SuSE.12.1. For me, at any rate, the directories created in "/media" are not persistent; reboot and they are gone. I've created a "MkDir" script with lots of "mkdir /media/??????????" lines in it to get over this.
I thought the uuid would be the same .
thanks for the word.
also -- i would like to take a moment to say how absolutely wonderful it is to ask a Q and get a response from germany and the UK.....
I love this world!
As tobiSGD said, the UUID is assigned to a partition when the partition is formatted. Be aware that if you ever need to replace the drive the UUIDs of the new drive will be different (why I don't use UUIDs).
Another method of mounting is to use labels when formatting. The fstab entry would then be something like: "LABEL=boot /boot ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2" (for a separate boot partition)". See manpage for mount options.
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