[PVE-User] Debian guests losing track of drive sequence?

[Patrick Wade]

Thanks!

-- 
Patrick R. Wade

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland <devzero at web.de> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 11:00
To: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user at lists.proxmox.com>; Patrick Wade <pwade at netassets.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Debian guests losing track of drive sequence?

that's not a proxmox issue but general linux issue.

solution:

use persistent device names

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530517/persistent-disk-name-dev-sdx-changing-with-almost-every-reboot

there is lot's of more info on that on the net...

roland


Am 08.03.22 um 19:12 schrieb Patrick Wade:
> I have a PVE 7.1-10 environment with several Debian 11 guests; in some of these guests, I have added a second, scsi1 virtual hard disk in addition to the scsi0 boot virtual disk.  I have referenced these as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab in the guest.
>
>  From time to time, when rebooting the guest, the drives are mounted in the wrong order; the content that was in /dev/sdb1 is mounted as the root partition, as if it were /dev/sda1.
>
> What am I missing that I need to do to ensure the guest mounts its virtual disks in the correct manner?
>
> --
> Patrick R. Wade
>
> _______________________________________________
> pve-user mailing list
> pve-user at lists.proxmox.com
> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
>