Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)

[Bill Davidsen]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > Easiest is to use labels. Old ide will keep hda,b,c,d constant
> > > > providing you have interfaces using the legacy IDE port mappings (0x1f0
> > > > and 0x170). Libata doesn't do that as pretty much every distribution 
> > > > had
> > > > already switched to volume labels, and the user space can do the job 
> > > > far
> > > > better than the kernel - especially as the newer devices with modern
> > > > interfaces don't have the old BIOS/DOS legacy ideas any more.
> > > >
> > > > Mount by label also means you can flip back and forth between the
> > > > different drivers and kernel revisions.
> > > >
> > > > Alan
> > It comes with one :)
> > # xfs_admin -u  /dev/sdd2
> > UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8
> >
> > Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the 
> > UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it.
> >
> > Justin.
> >
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> One final question, without udev, how does one determine the UUID of a 
> non-XFS
> partition, e.g., swap?
One uses blkid. Which suggests that you can solve your name problem by not using 
names and switching to UUID.


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