Re: After installation problem - adding /home back to fstab
I believe (you can do the experiment) that new BIOSs read the SATA bus one connector at a time, and sequence the drives accordingly. In other words, which motherboard connector you plug into is part of the answer.
As far as keeping the partitions straight, this is the whole "question" that is answered by UUID -- the problem that the advent of hot-pluggable storage devices totally destroyed the /dev/hdx model of partition enumeration. Using labels is also a pretty good idea -- I do that too. So, using /etc/fstab, you can mount partitions "by-UUID" or "by-label" and keep your permanent filesystems straight.
But using RAID introduces another layer of complexity -- oshunluvr can be the expert on that. :P
I believe (you can do the experiment) that new BIOSs read the SATA bus one connector at a time, and sequence the drives accordingly. In other words, which motherboard connector you plug into is part of the answer.
As far as keeping the partitions straight, this is the whole "question" that is answered by UUID -- the problem that the advent of hot-pluggable storage devices totally destroyed the /dev/hdx model of partition enumeration. Using labels is also a pretty good idea -- I do that too. So, using /etc/fstab, you can mount partitions "by-UUID" or "by-label" and keep your permanent filesystems straight.
But using RAID introduces another layer of complexity -- oshunluvr can be the expert on that. :P
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