disk devices in F9 interchanged

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Fri Mar 28 13:58:19 UTC 2008


Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> We do kickstart installs where we have something like:
> part / --onpart sda1 --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow
> in the kickstart file.
> 
> How can we ensure that we are installing to the drive we expect?
> 
>>> This is why we use filesystem labels, UUIDs, etc.
> 
> I'd be happy if we could install to a partition with a known label but I 
> dont think that's an option in kickstart.

Does kickstart support specifying a device by-path ? You can then use 
something like this:

/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0




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