Disk lettering consistency? Is it possible?
by rnturn from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5AW6C)
When I'm installing openSUSE, the disk letters that I see in the installer vary wildly from the drive letters when the system installation is complete and the system is booted from the hard disk.
I'm not referring to ways to make sure /etc/fstab doesn't break because of drive letter changes---that's what mounting by label is for (and I'm already doing that for non-root filesystems). I'm talking about cleaning off a spare disk (say, /dev/sdd) while running under 15.1 and having it show up as /dev/sda when running the 15.2 installer. I wind up having to repartition disks in funny ways (i.e. make the root partition a slightly different size than I've used in the past and jotting down the number of blocks) to make sure they can be easily distinguished in the installer's partition list. (Gripe: existing partitions that have filesystems and have labels should have those labels listed by the installer's partitioning tool to help mitigate the potential confusion arising from the disk letter changes.)
Any ideas why this happens? Is there a way keep this drive letter shuffling from happening?
TIA...
I'm not referring to ways to make sure /etc/fstab doesn't break because of drive letter changes---that's what mounting by label is for (and I'm already doing that for non-root filesystems). I'm talking about cleaning off a spare disk (say, /dev/sdd) while running under 15.1 and having it show up as /dev/sda when running the 15.2 installer. I wind up having to repartition disks in funny ways (i.e. make the root partition a slightly different size than I've used in the past and jotting down the number of blocks) to make sure they can be easily distinguished in the installer's partition list. (Gripe: existing partitions that have filesystems and have labels should have those labels listed by the installer's partitioning tool to help mitigate the potential confusion arising from the disk letter changes.)
Any ideas why this happens? Is there a way keep this drive letter shuffling from happening?
TIA...