Adding a new hard drive changes device name, new hd no mount

scales
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Adding a new hard drive changes device name, new hd no mount

Postby scales » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:46 pm

Ok I have talked to a couple of people in the chat and have searched the net for some answers. no luck :(

Here goes... I currently have 3 drives in my system now.
/dev/sda 500GB OS drive
/dev/sdb 2TB #1
/dev/sdc 2TB #2

The drives are plugged into the sata ports in order starting from Sata Port 0.

These 3 drives are mounted in fstab using the UUID's.

UUID=a80990b6-5770-40b5-b867-dd2e4a3eb7a3 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=6fee118e-c044-4d61-916f-ea248427a55e /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=40795084-ff7e-4d77-a3ac-ef2f42945942 /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=ba7628c0-e0af-41a2-97cb-64339e1d4c25 /nzbdownloads ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=1ad664a9-6565-4881-b738-b47971bf579b /var ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=079898bf-fef8-45da-8e44-7f73643afa6d swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=ae11e73a-4325-428f-a6e7-c5b657515132 /var/hda/files/drives/sdb1 ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=2a2ff388-ef71-4a99-851b-23fc195ec226 /var/hda/files/drives/sdc1 ext4 defaults 1 2

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

When I add a 4th drive things go haywire.

Upon boot the 4th drive becomes /dev/sdb and the drive that was /dev/sdb is now /dev/sdd

/dev/sda 500GB OS drive
/dev/sdb 1TB #1
/dev/sdc 2TB #2
/dev/sdd 2TB #1

I cannot mount this new drive because the original /dev/sdb drive has it's sdb1 partition mounted and the new drive has a partition named the same.
Should the new drive added not default to /dev/sdd ?

Am I missing the boat on this or is something not working correctly. Any help would be great.

Installed via latest express image

scales
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Re: Adding a new hard drive changes device name, new hd no m

Postby scales » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:15 am

Noob check ! I went with the flow and decided to just rename things myself and stop looking for the instant easy way.

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