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If you have IDE drives, you won't need to adjust fstab for other drives.
If you have SCSI drives, it depends upon which drive you removed and how you identified it in fstab. Linux assigns /dev/sda to the first SCSI drive it sees, sdb to the second, and so on. If you remove the drive that was sdb, the drive that was sdc will now become sdb, and you will need to edit fstab if you reference /dev/sdb there. If you used labels instead of device names, no change is necessary.
See "man fstab"
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Wed Mar 30 15:31:03 2005 mounts on sub mount-points anonymous
If any other drives/partitions were mounted on points below the removed
drive, you'll have to mount them in a legit place now.
Thus, if you have
bash> mount
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/one
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/one/path/to/dir
removing hda2 will require you to remount hdb1 on a valid location
Fri Jun 17 05:33:50 2005 Removing IDE Drive JesseLong
If hdd is set to "cable select" and you remove hdc, hdd will become hdc
and you will have to update fstab
Sat Jan 21 02:45:23 2006 Not how ATA cable select works anonymous
What? That's not what a 'cable select' cable does. It doesn't move a slave
to a master just because you don't have a master. That only happens if you
move the drive from the middle to the end of the cable.
I do note that some IDE interfaces seem to have difficulty with a slave-and-no-master,
and that's explicitly unsupported.
Mon Apr 2 00:13:15 2007 k8to
This is a telling question, but it will soon be drifting out of date as
libata grows in popularity. Already my SATA devices show up as 'sda' and
may shift if I add and remove devices.
Mon Aug 18 08:29:50 2008 Wesly
For ext2 and ext3 filesystem, e2label can avoid the modification on /etc/fstab.
Because it reads the label on each labeled partition instead of device
path.
Mon Jun 15 19:37:53 2009 Shamrock
You can mount using uuid
Wed Jul 29 23:44:52 2009 anonymous
The question is unclear. The way the question is worded sounds like /etc/fstab
is updated automatically when you remove the drive. I would recommend rewording
this.
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