[mdlug] Reordeing IDE drives in a system

[Aaron Kulkis]

Clinton V. Weiss wrote:
> Ubuntu's fstab references the drives based on their serial number -
> not sure how.  This could be quite useful tho since the drives could
> be re-arranged at anytime without affecting the system (while the
> system is off of course).
>
> Might be some good food for thought on getting it done that way.
>
SuSE gives the following options for creating fstab entries

Mount by device
Mount by drive serial number
Mount by (partition-level) volume label.

I label all my partitions like this
_root
_usr
_home
_usr_local

et cetera.