Drives in Ubuntu Server changing Drive letters every boot

Peder said:
will i experience slower reading times though?
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You shouldn't. There's minor kernel differences between the two but for using a "computer" as a server you won't notice the difference.
 
Tinuva said:
I dont quite get the problem. Do you have a problem with the order of the list?

When I look at them, they look rather the same every time. At least in your 2 examples.

Eg.

Round1:
/dev/sdc is listed 1st but its the 120gb drive.

Round2:
/dev/sdc is listed 3rd, but its still the 120gb drive.

So if you use the actual device name, it stayed the same, was just listed in a different order?
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Drake2007 said:
yeah on second look I'm seeing the same thing.

Maybe it's the mount points ( "drive letters" ) the OP is picking up on.
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milomak said:
Peder but what about posts 14, 15 and 17?
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The Drive SDC is moving around and it has a different kind of share on it so ubuntu give me problems... i have sorted it out now by using uuid's instead...
I am just now struggling to get it to connect to the network since i did a new clean install and i can't remember what was my problem last time.
 
@ Peder - why NTFS drives?

Why not use ext3/ext4 instead?

As for the window manager - you can install it, and start it up manually, so that the server will always default to a command-line prompt when rebooted.

We're planning to do it with our one production server - use the command-line interface to free up RAM and CPU when it's on site, and whenever we need to work on it, we'll fire up the GUI, do our work, and shut the GUI down afterwards.
 
well they were old windows drives and i just haven't had the need to format the drives to ext3.

But if they move around it still does not solve my problem because if i am going to be looking for something i am going to have to do hide and seek because the drive didn't boot up where it was supposed to...
 
Formatting the drives to ext3 and assigning mount points to them will solve your problems.

You won't have drive letters, just mount points.
 
yes i will just have mount points but the /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc keep moving around...

So i am struggling... and i am using uuid's now in anycase i am now just struggling to get my new installation to see itself and for windows to see that installation :mad:
 
can someone help me fix my networking because i can't seem to get this server to connect to any other pc... or the internet :(

How can i set that the GUI network works and not the interfaces???
 
Peder said:
can someone help me fix my networking because i can't seem to get this server to connect to any other pc... or the internet :(

How can i set that the GUI network works and not the interfaces???
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Clever little hobbit... putting SMDB off.... well now that it works, and your network is working again, is there anything not working yet?
 
Peder said:
yes i will just have mount points but the /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc keep moving around...

So i am struggling... and i am using uuid's now in anycase i am now just struggling to get my new installation to see itself and for windows to see that installation :mad:
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What are you running that shows these disks have moved around?

what is the output of (and put the output of each around code tags)
i. sudo fdisk -l
ii. sudo cat /etc/fstab
iii. sudo ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid
 
milomak said:
What are you running that shows these disks have moved around?

what is the output of (and put the output of each around code tags)
i. sudo fdisk -l
ii. sudo cat /etc/fstab
iii. sudo ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid
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its not going to move around anymore since i reinstalled the system and used UUID's

It sounds like a common problem among ubuntu...
 
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