[Durham] fstab and mounting drives at boot

[Richard Mortimer]

On 05/08/2014 08:02, Andrew Glass wrote:
> Hey
>
> Thanks for your help guys. I found out why the microserver does this,
 > it's due to the spare sata port and esata port being on a different
 > controller on the motherboard. There is a hacked bios that allows
 > the 5th sata port to be used at full speed and grouped together with
 > the other satas however I've just popped drives into the correct places
 > for now. May look at the hack in a few days when I'm off work.
Unless I'm missing something you shoudn't need to use any hacked 
firmware. The UUID= fstab method is pretty much the norm these days (at 
least I think/thought it is). It works for the boot partition too so I 
don't think you need to worry about hacked firmware apart from speed issues.

>
> Great little servers are these hp n54l microservers. Do any of you use them?
Yes. Had one for a few years. Wonderful thing! A bit sluggish on the CPU 
front but it works fine with plenty of storage.

Richard

P.S. Do be aware that HP changed their firmware patching policy about a 
year ago. You can now only download the firmware whilst you have a valid 
support contract or whilst the machine is under manufacturers warranty. 
Make sure you get any that you might need sooner rather than later.

>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 4 Aug 2014, at 22:39, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at highmoor.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/08/14 22:23, Richard Mortimer wrote:
>>>
>>> There are various techniques to work out what UUID is on each partition but assuming that you have the filesystems already mounted by /dev/xxx then look at what the /dev/disk/by-uuid link points to
>>
>> I think 'blkid' might help too. I've only recently started using this as it's particular useful when dealing with USB drives.
>>
>> Dougie
>>
>>
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