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[Solved] Should new distro for dual boot be changing my ssd id numbers? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok, so I had 1 ssd with Kubuntu and windows on it. I got a second ssd and I want to put opensuse on it, dual booting (well, triple). The problem is, when I went to install it, it showed the id of my two ssds as opposite of what the partition manager in Kubuntu says. I.e., Kubuntu calls the first one nvme0n1 and my new ssd nvme1n1, while the opensuse installer is calling the old ssd nvme1n1 and the new one nvme0n1. I know because it shows the existing partition sizes on them that way, and recognizes that windows and kubuntu are on the old ssd.

So is this normal? Is this ok? Is it ok to just install it with the ssd names this way? Would that confuse kubuntu at all, or are the two OSes ok with calling them different things? I just don't want the installer to overwrite anything on my existing partitions.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Results: So I went ahead and installed opensuse on the second ssd. Funny enough, it named them as the opposite of the first time that I tried, so the same as Kubuntu did. So these names are pretty changeable.

Anyway, everything went pretty straightforward, except it wanted to ID the drives by name instead of uuid in the fstab, so I changed that option. Otherwise the only major thing I changed was the drive boot order in my bios, and now I can log into either distro just fine. Thanks to both of you.