[Gllug] Replacement SATA disk naming

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:07:07PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> > How do I get the kernel to rename /dev/sdc as /dev/sda ?
> 
> Don't.  Use udev to create unique names (or symlinks) in /dev/ for your
> disks and their partitions and then tell your raid software about that. 

Hmmmm: pity the installation s/ware (anaconda) didn't do that.
/dev/sda is referenced is all sorts of places, eg: nagios & smart monitoring.
I'd like to try this one something other than a live customer machine -- first time round.

>   udevinfo --query=all --name=sdc
> 
> should give you enough information to create a custom rule.

Didn't work, but this did:

	udevinfo -q all -n sdc

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