[openSUSE 11.1, kernel 2.6.27.45-0.1-Default, Gnome 2.26.3]
Hello…
I have a problem where I have an external USB drive which mounts at boot, with /home aboard it along with several data-only partitions, and if I try to add another USB drive after boot, the system changes the device IDs previously given to the original drive. The already running sdb now becomes sdc. If a user or processes are attached to /home when this occurs they are left in the twilight zone and stuff starts crashing.
An added weirdness is the newly added drive isn’t stealing the sdb ID, the added drive becomes sdd instead, and nothing at all is left at the sdb ID.
Note:
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System boots from sda, a non-USB drive with the system as well as /swap onboard, that should be uninvolved with the problem.
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Among the 4 partitions of the boot-mounted USB drive there are 2 lux-encrypted partitions (ext3). One is /home (originally encrypted under 10.3 and added back after machine upgraded to 11.1) and another being a data directory (later encrypted under 11.1).
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The problem may occur only when the additional added drive is also lux-encrypted, but this may or may not be always true as I have limited other USB stuff to test with, most of it is also lux-encrypted.
Ideas or help, anyone? Thanks.