Device nodes for mmcblk ...

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 04:08:45 EST 2010


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably known around here --
>
> On F11 builds, the enumerated device for the SD cards (internal,
> external) can and does change. More precisely:
>
>  - Boot with only internal SD card present, and later insert an ext SD
> card -- result: mmcblk0 is the internal SD card, and mmcblk1 the
> external.
>
>  - Boot from the internal SD card, with an external SD card present --
> result: swapped enumeration - mmcblk1 is the internal SD card, and
> mmcblk0 the external.
>
> So for example if you want /home on an external SD card, use UUIDs .

Or you could use labels on the FS.

Peter



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