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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Moving a Raid drive
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:42:58 +0100
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Hi,

my glc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:

> I had to move a HD to a different slot because of hardware issues. This
> causes the raid member that was /dev/sdb1 to become /dev/sdc1 ... and ...
> guixSD won't boot :-(
>
> Is there a way to work around this?

Not really I=E2=80=99m afraid.

The general recommendation is to *not* use /dev names and instead refer
to file systems by UUID or label.  However, in the case or RAID, that=E2=80=
=99s
not possible ATM.

Ludo=E2=80=99.