Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Yes. I seemed to have been spreading misinformation. I had been led to
> believe that part of the UUID incorporated a hard-identifier/serial
> for a given disk, but if that is not the case then it doesn't seem
> much more useful than LABEL.
> 
> 
> That being said, do drive incorporate some sort of hard serial that
> can be read (and how to do so)?

/dev/disk/by-id/ has serial number based references.
/dev/disk/by-path/ has it by the bus/controller/port the device uses.

You can probably guess what /dev/disk/by-label/ and /dev/disk/by-uuid/
does.

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Len Sorensen
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