[olug] controlling Linux's assignments of sda, sdb, etc.

[Kevin]

I take it that your SNMP monitoring is by device alone? It can't be
changed to monitor a mount point?0

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:37, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>> This is what I've used for 2 usb drives that are randomly inter-changed
>> in one of my systems....
>> <from fstab>
>> UUID=8ec052d6-c43c-45c8-8d11-d3d876890297       /media/mediabay
>> ext3 defaults 1 0
>> UUID="a5f30842-7421-4750-8f62-3298bb3acbc6"     /media/pocket
>> ext3 defaults 1 0
>> </from fstab>
>
> Mounting isn't an issue.  I always label my filesystems when I create
> them, then mount them by label:
>
> LABEL=ST120GB           /                       ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1
> LABEL=SAM1.5TBswap      none                    swap    sw,pri=4        0       0
> LABEL=WD1.5TBswap       none                    swap    sw,pri=3        0       0
> LABEL=ST1.5TBswap       none                    swap    sw,pri=2        0       0
> LABEL=ST120swap         none                    swap    sw,pri=1        0       0
> LABEL=HomeFS            /home                   ext4    defaults        0       2
> LABEL=SAM1.5TBboot      /mnt/backup-boot        ext4    defaults,noauto 0       0
> LABEL=SAM1.5TBroot      /mnt/backup-root        ext4    defaults,noauto 0       0
> LABEL=BackupFS          /mnt/backup-home        ext4    defaults,noauto 0       0
>
> The advantage that labels have over UUID's is that it's immediately
> obvious at first glance which filesystem I'm referencing.
>
> Of course, none of this helps my SNMP problem, so I'm still screwed there.
>
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