[Linux-users] Mini rant: sda vs hda

[Sean Keating]

The problem will be apparent when you try to plug in an external, USB
device (like a USB hard drive.)  It will also be an "sb" device and will
not unmount easily. Some devices work fine, others don't.  I use Feisty,
and I like it a lot, but it took me a while to figure this one out.  

Also, let me warn you.  Notice that in fstab your drive is mounted by
its UUID not its device. (This probably has something to do with why its
sda instead of hda.)  I use gparted to periodically duplicate my drive
to an external USB drive as a backup.  If I forget to assign it a new
UUID and plug it in, it hides my actual drive.

Sean

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 19:58 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > Just installed my first copy of Ubuntu "Feisty", previous work had all
> > been in "Dapper" or older. Kernel = 2.6.20.something.
> >
> > Why on earth are all my ancient PATA IDE drives now referred to as
> > /dev/sda ?
> >
> > Who should I blame for this silliness? Shuttleworth or Torvalds?
> 
> I think it would be Torvalds....   but why is this such a big problem?
> 
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