February 17, 201016 yr Not a huge deal but I was wondering if it's possible. I want my setup to be like this: | /dev/md1 | disk1 | dev/sda | | /dev/md2 | disk2 | dev/sdb | | /dev/md3 | disk3 | dev/sdc | | /dev/md4 | disk4 | dev/sdd | | /dev/md5 | disk5 | dev/sde | | /dev/md6 | disk6 | dev/sdf | (Nice and organized, easy to remember which each is assigned too) However the flash device is assigned to sde, so my disk drives skip that letter and it throws it off. Is there anyway to reassign it to, like, sdz? Once again, not a big deal but if it's possible i'd like to do it. Thanks.
February 17, 201016 yr Not a huge deal but I was wondering if it's possible. I want my setup to be like this: | /dev/md1 | disk1 | dev/sda | | /dev/md2 | disk2 | dev/sdb | | /dev/md3 | disk3 | dev/sdc | | /dev/md4 | disk4 | dev/sdd | | /dev/md5 | disk5 | dev/sde | | /dev/md6 | disk6 | dev/sdf | (Nice and organized, easy to remember which each is assigned too) However the flash device is assigned to sde, so my disk drives skip that letter and it throws it off. Is there anyway to reassign it to, like, sdz? Once again, not a big deal but if it's possible i'd like to do it. Thanks. It may be possible, but not without a lot of very very advanced effort. The disks appear in the order they are scanned on the hardware by the "udev" system. Unless you define your own "udev" rules, and have those new rules in place when you reboot "in" the bzimage file, you have no way of doing what you desire. you would need a rule to be in place before the one that assigns block devices and have it assign the flash drive in a special way. About all you can try is shut down, plugging it into a different USB port and try rebooting.. The device might change, it might not, and you have absolutely no control over the device assigned. In fact, there is no guarantee that the disks themselves will stay the same devices. You might add a new disk tomorrow and it will change the devices of all or some of the existing disks because it initializes faster than one or more of the existing drives, or its hardware controller is scanned earlier in the sequence than others.
February 17, 201016 yr Author Not a huge deal but I was wondering if it's possible. I want my setup to be like this: | /dev/md1 | disk1 | dev/sda | | /dev/md2 | disk2 | dev/sdb | | /dev/md3 | disk3 | dev/sdc | | /dev/md4 | disk4 | dev/sdd | | /dev/md5 | disk5 | dev/sde | | /dev/md6 | disk6 | dev/sdf | (Nice and organized, easy to remember which each is assigned too) However the flash device is assigned to sde, so my disk drives skip that letter and it throws it off. Is there anyway to reassign it to, like, sdz? Once again, not a big deal but if it's possible i'd like to do it. Thanks. It may be possible, but not without a lot of very very advanced effort. The disks appear in the order they are scanned on the hardware by the "udev" system. Unless you define your own "udev" rules, and have those new rules in place when you reboot "in" the bzimage file, you have no way of doing what you desire. you would need a rule to be in place before the one that assigns block devices and have it assign the flash drive in a special way. About all you can try is shut down, plugging it into a different USB port and try rebooting.. The device might change, it might not, and you have absolutely no control over the device assigned. In fact, there is no guarantee that the disks themselves will stay the same devices. You might add a new disk tomorrow and it will change the devices of all or some of the existing disks because it initializes faster than one or more of the existing drives, or its hardware controller is scanned earlier in the sequence than others. Alright, thank you.
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