[Cialug] Force Disk to /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, Etc?

David Michael 1.david.michael at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 09:05:16 CDT 2016


Wouldn't it be better to use the uuid which is constant across machines?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to force Linux to label a certain disk /dev/sda, another one
> /dev/sdb, and so on? I have two servers, each with four hard drives all of
> the same model. The two servers mirror each other in size and SCSI
> controller placement, i.e. the 80GB is on 0:0 on both, the 1TB is on 1:0 on
> both, etc.
>
> But each comes up with the drives in a different order. Is there a way to
> make them the same?
>
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> Todd
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