Shifting mount points for drives

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:35:50PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> For some reason, the two HDDs keep getting shifted in their drive
> numbers. If I have in /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sde1 /mp3
> /dev/sdf1 /web

Use labels or UUIDs

> If I comment them out of fstab, then when I come to mount them, they are
> *always* /dev/sde1 and /dev/sdf1
> 
> Any clues as to why this would be?

Probably the order module loading is getting triggered. With modern systems
hotplug and hot swappable drives it makes no sense to try and tie device names
to constant places - so we don't.