[olug] How to force internal HDD to be sda?

Trent Melcher trentm at q.com
Tue Sep 14 13:55:28 UTC 2010


Here is an old article but might point you in the right direction,  it talks
about using the UUID of the disks since those don't change across reboots.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146951

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Kevin D. Snodgrass
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:09 AM
To: OLUG
Subject: [olug] How to force internal HDD to be sda?

I have 2 external hard drive cases that I use extensively.  On my laptop
(mostly), in Fedora 13 if I boot with the external drive plugged in via USB
it gets assigned /dev/sda and the laptop internal drive gets assigned
/dev/sdb.  When the external is not attached the internal gets assigned
/dev/sda.  Why?  Sorry to be blunt, but that is just damn stupid.  (Says the
crusty old UNIX guy)

Is there some way I can force whatever is doing this (I'm guessing udev,
since this problem starting showing up with it's introduction) to assign the
internal to /dev/sda?

Kevin D. Snodgrass



      
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