Hard drive mount points change on reboot.

Springs · 01-26-2010, 10:30 AM

Every time i reboot my computer my hard drive mount points keep changing which means the mount points i've put in the fstab wont work any more.

I'm using the same settings as i had before i upgraded the OS to what it currently is.

Im using fedora 12

My disk 1 for example would be as follows:

before: /dev/sda3

after: /dev/sdd3

Thanks

amani · 01-26-2010, 12:08 PM

Old way:

use labels in /etc/fstab

First label partitions like /ABC1 for /dev/sdb1 etc (use parted magic/system rescue cd for this)

put
LABEL=/ABC1
instead of
/dev/sdb1

dalai lama · 01-28-2010, 03:54 AM

That is some strange thing. I see it more often that after a reboot the mount points changes. Do you use several hard disks or maybe a raid controller on your system?

Best way to fix is to use label mounting with e2label. This way the server boots from the labels instead of the mount points.