After installing the Inspur server 5280m6 system using Rocky 9.6, I noticed that the drive letters were disorganized after the system rebooted. Since it is used as a Ceph server with multiple hard disks, and the drive letters change every time it reboots, how can I resolve this issue?

Has anyone else encountered this issue and how did they resolve it? Thank you

The server used for Ceph does not have any disk letters except for the system disk. I encountered the same problem when installing both Rocky9.6 and Rocky10, but Ubuntu 22.04 works normally

[1b8fab48e71545bad6c5d235a4474770] when reboot it‘s likes this.

but it should be like this [9678cce861e496bffd3dd894d60ef4cb]

[image] zhangdd: but it should be like this No, it should not. The ‘sdX’ names are totally free to change on every reboot. (They do not “change”, but are created on boot, “randomly”.) Do look at /etc/fstab. How are the devices referred to in there? Do look at lsblk -f and blkid Do look at…

Rocky 9.6 the drive letters were disorganized after the system rebooted

Rocky Linux Help & Support

GZU July 24, 2025, 5:39am 3

drive letter changing is to be expected, you should be using UUIDs or similar to mount your drives, see changing-drive-letter

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Rocky 9.6 the drive letters were disorganized after the system rebooted

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