Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??
Date	2021-01-18 00:40 +0100
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Stefan Monnier wrote: 
> > No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as
> > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it.
> 
> Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the
> name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`.
> 

Yes, or stranger things -- which is why 'cat /proc/partitions'
is first on my list of instructions.

-dsr-

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Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2021-01-17 20:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-01-17 20:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2021-01-17 23:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:00 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-18 00:20 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-18 00:40 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 08:50 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-18 09:00 +0100
    Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100
      Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:30 +0100
        Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 21:20 +0100
          Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2021-01-19 07:40 +0100
  Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-18 10:10 +0100

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