[olug] Drive letter assignments

[Brian Roberson]

What are you using to pull stats? Snmp, or a script, or?

Net-snmp doesn't have alot of persistence options, but if you are
grabbing it some other way, there may be options.



On Apr 10, 2011, at 9:39 PM, obiwan at jedi.com (Obi-Wan) wrote:

> While I'm on the hard drive topic, it drives me crazy that every time
> I reboot my machine that contains five physical drives (one PATA, four
> SATA), the sdX drive letters get scrambled.  I label every partition,
> so this doesn't affect drive mounting, but it plays havoc with my
> MRTG setup because SNMP sorts its entries by drive letter (-ish).
>
> Is there any way around this?  I only reboot once every few months to
> catch kernel updates, but it's still annoying.
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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