sda / sdb after boot

anika.ella · 04-29-2011, 11:45 AM

I want to automatic mount a ntfs partition after start. I work on fstab, everything seems to be ok, but now something strange is happening: sometimes after boot, when I use fdisk, I find all the partitions as sda, sometims they seems to appear as sdb. Of course, if in fstab I have written sda and they are sdb, they will not be aoutomount...
I am using fedora 14
Any idea why is happening this ? I was expecting that allways the partitions to be sda or sdb.

pingu · 04-29-2011, 11:59 AM

This is because with sata,usb etc the disks doesn't have an exact physical position as with old ata.
What you should do is use either UUID or LABEL instead of /dev/sd*
Find your uuid and label:
# ls /dev/disk/by-label
# ls /dev/disk/by-uuid

In /etc/fstab, example:
UUID=4706-0137 /media/sda1 vfat defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0