Partitions constantly being renamed

[vigleik]

I have several partitions on my hard drive, usually called things like sda2. The other day the partitions were suddenly renamed to things like disk-6. That causes me all sorts of trouble, for example Amarok can no longer find my music, which moved from sda2 to disk-6.

So I fixed my problems, only to find that the next time I rebooted the partitions were back to the old names. Now the names have switched again, with my music now on disk-4! There seems to be no system to the madness.

I run 8.04 with the kde4 remix, I have no idea if kde is somehow responsible. A while ago I ran some sort of script to have my partitions automatically mounted, I can't remember exactly what I did.

Oh, and I also formatted my other hard drive (sdb) a while ago and every time I boot I get some sort of error message about not being able to activate swap.

I don't really care what ubuntu calls my partitions, as long as the names don't change from day to day. Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening, or how to stop it?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb6
UUID=55f3b7e4-ef4d-4585-bffe-8e7ab3421a84 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=49d38668-bbb1-4afb-8a52-89e3aeeaea3c none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sdb4
UUID=a40faaae-1f0f-453c-9d82-3c75993f477f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda4 /media/sda4 swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0

[Bachstelze]

Details, please... Where do you see those disk-* names ?

[vigleik]

Both the sda's and disk-* names are present in /media/, sometimes the sda's are automounted, sometimes they simply don't exist in /dev/. Here's my current mtab:

/dev/sdb6 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /media/disk ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/disk-1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /media/disk-2 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-3 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/disk-4 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0