Identify disks for setup-storage

[Thomas Roth]

Thank you all - I have managed to get a hold on my disks, much in the described way.
Cheers
Thomas

On 09/01/2023 22.22, andrew bezella wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-01-08 at 11:26 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I use a script to reorder the variable $disklist, so setup-storage
>> can
>> mostly use disk1, but I can define the order of the disk depending on
>> disk types or even the serial number of a disk. The script is
>> class/99-disklist.sh:
> 
> we use a similar strategy inspired by a 2013 discussion[1].  with
> batches of homogeneously-built hosts we can use the information in
> `/dev/disk/by-path` to walk through a known disk layout in our
> preferred order (see attached).
> 
> hth,
> 
> 	andy
> 
> 1. https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-November/010229.html
> 

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