Adding another hard drive

[Xavior]

My problem may come from the fact that I have three drives already,
System > hda > IDE1 master
WebDrive > hdb > IDE2 slave
DataDrive > sdc > SATA1

When I add the drive and startup the PC,
the added drive wants to be sdc, and pushes my SATA1 to sdd,
so I get an error that the files for the DataDrive are missing and so on...

How can I make the added drive not become sdc ?
it should be hdc since it is a IDE drive...

this is very strange,

thanks,
Xav

[sej7278]

ide now uses the scsi drivers like sata, so they all appear as sdx now.

you can either have a play with the order in your bios if thats possible, or edit your /etc/fstab and use labels (and e2label).

google it, essentially you use e2label to set partition labels (bit like disk names) and the make fstab refer to them instead of e.g. /dev/sda1 you have LABEL=/boot

[Xavior]

Thanks !
the only part I can't figure out is:
can I set a label on an existing drive ?
It won't wipe my data, will it ?

tia,
Xav

[Xavior]

All refs I found say it's for ext2 FS,
Does this work on ext3 file systems ?

tia,
Xav

[Xavior]

Worked like a charm !

Thanks,
Xav

[sej7278]

the syntax is "e2label /dev/sda1 /boot" (or whatever) and yeah it works for ext3, and won't wipe your data.

jfs has a similar "jfs_tune -L /boot /dev/sda1" (also "tune2fs -L /boot /dev/sda1" for ext3)

glad it worked for you - i always wondered what the point of labels were until i had that problem