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Ubuntu 8.04 RC problem with IDE, SATA disks, static file information

Asked by Mathew Samuel

I have 2 IDE disks, and 1 SATA disk installed on my system. Prior to 8.04 RC (7.10), I saw them as /dev/hda /dev/hdb and /dev/sda (along with the partitions /dev/hda1 and so forth).

After 8.04 RC, the first time I booted all 3 disks were now showing up as scsi disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc). This caused a problem as I had the SATA disk mounted using /dev/sda2. I edited the /etc/fstab file to reflect the changes (sda->sdc) and I thought things were fine. I rebooted again today and now my SATA disk is back to /dev/sda; worse the ide disks are now /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc.

I also have a swap partition on the SATA disk that I had mounted using an entry in the /etc/fstab file. I'm wondering if that's what caused the issue.

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Best Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

Hi Mathew,

I had the same issue. Just try to change your fstab again.

Or you can use UUID:
Run in terminal "sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda1" for each volume and replace all "/dev/sda1" in your fstab with UUIDs.
It should look like this:
UUID=89a7bab0-a782-4d03-9a58-aa04420c571e / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

Hope this helps.

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Mathew Samuel (mathw-samuel) said : 		#2

This worked. Thanks

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Mathew Samuel (mathw-samuel) said : 		#3

Thanks Max Schukin, that solved my question.

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#4

You are welcome :)