OT: redhat

[Fairlight]

When asked his whereabouts on Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:19:46AM -0800,
Bill Campbell took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> >
> >That makes sense.  Does Linux still change the numbers if you
> >remove a drive in the middle - say you had 4 drives and removed one
> >- do the drives above the middle one get renumbered.  That used to
> >be a problem but I'm not that deep into Linux at the moment.
> 
> I'm not sure what Linux does when a partition is removed, and I really
> didn't want to find out the hard way which is why I use LVM.

He said -drives- though.  I think he's asking if it will change /dev/sdd to
/dev/sdc if you remove the original drive that was found at /dev/sdc.  

I don't even know the answer to that.  I haven't had occasion to try.  I
don't think IDE will downshift, partly because I've seen the primary on the
secondary bus show up as /dev/hdc when there were no HD's at hda and hdb.
That's relatively flimsy evidence though.

My guess is that they -will- downshift in SCSI.  The only thing it has to
go by is ID and LUN.  The devices aren't mapped to those, but rather the
lowest ID for a particular device (sd*, scd*, st*, etc.).  I'm thinking
they'll probably shift downwards.  But then, so does Win9x.  If I delete my
(unused) D partition on the middle drive, all my drive letter assignments
go to hell in Win95.  I keep it there to make things sane.  I ran into
issues with re-mapping the drives in win95, so I had to go with this for
some obscure reasons.

mark->
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