How could I change a /dev/sda1 to a /dev/sdb1 or sdc1 at will?

[kyonides]

I'm asking you for help because I have now 2 hdd's with the label or designation or whatchamacallit /dev/sda1 (and sda5 and so on for the rest of the partitions on those hdd's) and obviously I won't be able to mount them at the same time because the system would never work properly under such a weird environment or weird conditions. So what can I do in order to fix this without formatting any of the hdd's?

Thank you in advance for any assistance!

[vinnywright]

Re: How could I change a /dev/sda1 to a /dev/sdb1 or sdc1 at will?

post the output of

sudo fdisk -l

thats a small L

so we can see this.

VINNY

[doctordruidphd]

Re: How could I change a /dev/sda1 to a /dev/sdb1 or sdc1 at will?

Not sure exactly what you are trying to do that's a problem.

Are you talking about internal drives, or external USB drives?
Normally, for internal drives, they are mounted according to UUID, so there is never a problem with what /dev assigns to them. That is how the are entered in /etc/fstab by the installer. If you want to add a second internal drive, then you will want to edit your fstab so that the new drive (actually, its partitions) are mounted using UUID. You can see the UUID numbers for each partition with sudo blkid.

That being said, I have 3 internal hds, and they are always mounted in the same order. I sue that fact in setting up a custom grub menu, so I can quickly boot the latest kernels on each of my systems. Hasn't flinched yet.