nife87
September 30th, 2008, 02:23 PM
Maybe this is an easy question to answer, but I have not been able to find a proper solution for it, so here goes.
I have 3 hard drives installed in my desktop, 2 SATA and 1 IDE, and the Ubuntu installation lies on one of the SATA drives.
To automatically mount the two other drives at boot, I edited fstab and added the necessary lines, where /dev/sda1 is the Ubuntu SATA (ext3), /dev/sdb1 is the other SATA (ntfs), and /dev/sdc1 is the IDE (ntfs).
This works fine in perhaps 2-3 boots, but the next time I boot, the partition paths have suddenly changed?
All three partition paths can change, as I have noticed, so sometimes the 2 extra drives have just switched folder paths, but other times only 1 of them will mount, since the other now points to the Ubuntu drive!
This is one possible other (odd and anoying) configuration, where USATA stands for Ubuntu SATA:
USATA /dev/sdb1
SATA /dev/sdc1
IDE /dev/sda1
Does anyone know how I can solve this? Since it would be nice it the drives would "stay" where they should be for each boot, as otherwise I have to mount one or the both of them manually quite often.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard (perhaps some silly option in the BIOS that I have misread?). I do not believe the ports, which the two SATA drives are attached to, play a role, since also the IDE change its path just as often as the SATA.
I have 3 hard drives installed in my desktop, 2 SATA and 1 IDE, and the Ubuntu installation lies on one of the SATA drives.
To automatically mount the two other drives at boot, I edited fstab and added the necessary lines, where /dev/sda1 is the Ubuntu SATA (ext3), /dev/sdb1 is the other SATA (ntfs), and /dev/sdc1 is the IDE (ntfs).
This works fine in perhaps 2-3 boots, but the next time I boot, the partition paths have suddenly changed?
All three partition paths can change, as I have noticed, so sometimes the 2 extra drives have just switched folder paths, but other times only 1 of them will mount, since the other now points to the Ubuntu drive!
This is one possible other (odd and anoying) configuration, where USATA stands for Ubuntu SATA:
USATA /dev/sdb1
SATA /dev/sdc1
IDE /dev/sda1
Does anyone know how I can solve this? Since it would be nice it the drives would "stay" where they should be for each boot, as otherwise I have to mount one or the both of them manually quite often.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a Gigabyte P35-DS3R motherboard (perhaps some silly option in the BIOS that I have misread?). I do not believe the ports, which the two SATA drives are attached to, play a role, since also the IDE change its path just as often as the SATA.