"Jay Kline" <list at slushpupie.com> wrote: > > I have several SCSI disks on my computer, and occasionally I disconnect > one or two of them (ie, Zip drive, external hard drive, etc). The > problem is the device files reorder themselves if I don't boot with the > same devices all the time. This means fstab is not right, and I have to > mount things manually (after figuring out what device is where). Is > there a way to force the devices to maintain their id's? You could use devfs (device filesystem) or find the utility `scsidev' and have that run early on in the boot process (ie, one of the first lines in /etc/rc.sysinit or whatever the correct script is on your system) http://www.torque.net/scsi/linux_scsi_24/dnamesdevfs.html http://www.torque.net/scsi/linux_scsi_24/dnamesscsidev.html http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/ -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Why can't you be a / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ non-conformist like \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) everyone else? [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010628/0b9e7efb/attachment.pgp