[Cialug] scsi question

[Jeff Davis]

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I think that's what I needed Barry. Thanks!
(I'm looking at the the rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/)

I have a situation where that id changed, and I want to know why.
I was able to get the box back up by passing root=/dev/disk/by-id/theNewID
but I'd want to know what happened, why it happened and how I can keep
it from happening again.

- -Jeff


Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> That's the udev device id, you can use is in your fstab rules so
> your usbdrive always maps to the same place, for example
>
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> Jeff Davis wrote: That got cut off... I'm just curious about the
> scsi-360a9800043346c366534444668526546-part2 (I know what /sda2
> is.)
>
> Jeff Davis wrote:
>>>> I'm curious about something and I'm hoping one of you can
>>>> shed some light on it.
>>>>
>>>> This is on a SuSE box with SCSI disks. In /dev/disk/by-id/  I
>>>> can see:
>>>>
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov  9 11:15
>>>> scsi-360a9800043346c366534444668526546-part1 -> ../../sda1
>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov  9 11:15
>>>> scsi-360a9800043346c366534444668526546-part2 -> ../../sda2 ^
>>>> ^  ^ ^  ^  ^   ^   ^  ^    ^   ^   ^     ^  ^   ^ I want to
>>>> know what this identifier is and how it's generated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
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