sdc suddently sdd?

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:43:04PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:58:28 -0500
> Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > I just realized that sometime fairly recently my usb2
> > drive I use for backups has stopped showing up as
> > /dev/sdc and instead shows up as /dev/sdd (with no
> > device named /dev/sdc anywhere).
> 
> Actually, it was weirder that just the name change.
> A "df" command showed /backup already mounted on /dev/sdc5
> and the free space about what I'd expect, but if I did an
> "ls" on /backup, there was nothing there, and if I
> did an "fdisk -l", it reported /dev/sdd, but not /dev/sdc.
> 
> It's like the name changed sometime after the system was already
> up and the drive mounted.

I've seen this happen -- I've just assumed I manually mounted something 
(usually on top of something else) instead of letting the automounter 
handle it. Maybe I'll pay more attention next time it happens and see
if I can figure out what happens.

Kurt
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