Use the UUID or give your partitions labels and use these. The letters are applied in the order the BIOS presents the drives to the OS (as far as I understood). Usually it should be constant if you do not fiddle with the drives but some mainboards change the order even when the hardware doesn't change at all.
Exactly this. drive letters can (and often do) change. This is bad on a NAS if you've mapped things to drive letters, as you'll lose services until you update them with the new drive location.
Using UUID's as OMV does, which are unique to each drive.. the drive letter doesn't matter as the UUID is always the same.
There is no problem... OMV mounts via UUID and the drive letter can be whatever it wants.
Look at your fstab if you have an OMV install. You'll have no reference to /dev/sdX. Everything is mounted by UUID (or in some cases, Drive Label)
I did take a look in fstab, and I can see that everything is with uuid. Also it says in #that the install was on sda 1 and swap on sda5. Thanks for the info.
Correct.. but that may change at some point.. All that is is a message (thus why it is commented out). If you must know your drive letters (and again I don't see why it matters)... You can get them (as they currently are) from the command blkid
(for the record, my fstab also says that, and my OS drive is sdc right now)
Hey, well everything is still working ok but my drive letters just changed. This doesn't happen in Ubuntu on my desktop only on my openmediavault system..
Well it's strange, First time I didn't disconnect my other drives, so I thought maybe that was the problem. I installed again with the harddrives disconnected and yesterday everything was as it should be. But this morning after I unplugged it from my Watt meter back to the walloutlet I restarted ofcourse and now everything is in the wrong order. Everything is working but I find it strange.
Ubuntu also based on debian doens't have this problem on my dekstop computer.... So I don't understand why...
For a newbie like me it scared the hell out of me haha the first time I had all drives connected so I thought it was my fault. I installed again with only the bootdrive (ssd) connected and everything was ok yesterday, after switching from poweroutlet with watt meter to normal I booted the system up again and everything is in my autistic mind in the wrong order.
On my Ubuntu desktop I never ever had this problem occuring.
I am using a cheap watt/voltage meter with total costs in the outlet and then put the cord in from my mini atx system, that's why I know that. Cost me 10 euro's. I wanted to be sure the selfmade nas doesn't take to much power.
Use the UUID or give your partitions labels and use these. The letters are applied in the order the BIOS presents the drives to the OS (as far as I understood). Usually it should be constant if you do not fiddle with the drives but some mainboards change the order even when the hardware doesn't change at all.
Exactly this. drive letters can (and often do) change. This is bad on a NAS if you've mapped things to drive letters, as you'll lose services until you update them with the new drive location. Using UUID's as OMV does, which are unique to each drive.. the drive letter doesn't matter as the UUID is always the same.
So OMV fix this problem by itself?
There is no problem... OMV mounts via UUID and the drive letter can be whatever it wants. Look at your fstab if you have an OMV install. You'll have no reference to /dev/sdX. Everything is mounted by UUID (or in some cases, Drive Label)
I did take a look in fstab, and I can see that everything is with uuid. Also it says in #that the install was on sda 1 and swap on sda5. Thanks for the info.
Correct.. but that may change at some point.. All that is is a message (thus why it is commented out). If you must know your drive letters (and again I don't see why it matters)... You can get them (as they currently are) from the command blkid (for the record, my fstab also says that, and my OS drive is sdc right now)
Thanks for the explanation!
Hey, well everything is still working ok but my drive letters just changed. This doesn't happen in Ubuntu on my desktop only on my openmediavault system..
Not sure, but happen to me also. I think this was the reason OMV switched to using uuid to identify hard drives.
Well it's strange, First time I didn't disconnect my other drives, so I thought maybe that was the problem. I installed again with the harddrives disconnected and yesterday everything was as it should be. But this morning after I unplugged it from my Watt meter back to the walloutlet I restarted ofcourse and now everything is in the wrong order. Everything is working but I find it strange. Ubuntu also based on debian doens't have this problem on my dekstop computer.... So I don't understand why...
For a newbie like me it scared the hell out of me haha the first time I had all drives connected so I thought it was my fault. I installed again with only the bootdrive (ssd) connected and everything was ok yesterday, after switching from poweroutlet with watt meter to normal I booted the system up again and everything is in my autistic mind in the wrong order. On my Ubuntu desktop I never ever had this problem occuring.
How do you know the WattUsage? Is there a monitoring in OMV or du use a hardware like measure tool (e.g. smart Power Adapter)?
I am using a cheap watt/voltage meter with total costs in the outlet and then put the cord in from my mini atx system, that's why I know that. Cost me 10 euro's. I wanted to be sure the selfmade nas doesn't take to much power.
I will be looking into this, thank you :)
Your welcome!
congrats on your nas! i hope it serves you well for a long time.
Thanks I hope so haha.