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Setting tce directory [was Re: Set tce drive gone?]

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gerald_clark:
The instructions are a roadmap, not absolute commands.
I personally avoid giving absolute commands as they can have disasterous consequences on other peoples machines, especially if
they have already installed software they wish to preserve.
We expect people to read the instructions on the wiki and apply the principles to their own machines, making adjustments
as necessary to accomodate differences in hardware BIOS settings.

maro:
Ubuntu (and others) are those that seem to be assigning '/dev/sdXY' to IDE (or P-ATA) devices where TC would use '/dev/hdXY'. This is a choice made by each distribution. In a way TC is following more the "traditional" pattern: using '/dev/hdXY' for IDE (or P-ATA) devices and '/dev/sdXY' for the likes of SATA, SCSI and USB pendrives and harddisks.

Now, all this is not that much of a big "guessing game" if one would pay attention to either the 'dmesg' output or what for example blkid /dev/[hs][dr]* reports. With the help of the label and file system type information and possibly even file system size information obtained from 'fdisk -l /dev/DISK' (with 'DISK' a device name like 'hda' and not a file system like 'hda1') it should not be rocket science to work out ones "TC names" for the devices in question. Running the equivalent commands using a different distribution would reveal "their names".

I'm pretty sure that "backup failures" are the result of using "forreign names". So please don't suggest to users to make "wild guesses" of which device names TC uses based on information obtained from a "forreign" system. The correct information can be identified on a running TC system using the commands suggested above (that also can be found probably now several dozend times in this forum here).

It might be worth to consider including a paragraph about this in the FAQ, but that's a call for the Core team.

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