https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209089 --- Comment #9 from Alan Stern (stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) --- (I bet you could have fixed the fstab contents by booting from the pen drive in "rescue" mode, with no need to have FreeBSD installed.) Changing the monikers is only a partial solution. For example, devices that show up as uda and udb one day could very well show up as udb and uda the next day. Also, suppose your system's primary hard disk was attached by USB rather than SATA. Then the pen drive could have been labelled uda and the primary drive labelled udb, and your fstab would still be messed up. This is part of the reason why people recommend using filesystem or GUID labels for fstab entries rather than drive names and partition numbers. In short, changing the monikers isn't going to happen, and even if it did happen it wouldn't fully fix your original problem. However, there is a way to set up your system to use permanently fixed drive names that you assign. All you have to do is write and install an appropriate udev script. Then you can make the drive names be anything you want. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
