We’ve all been in that situation where we see a device in Linux and wonder which physical device it corresponds to. I remember when I built my first NAS and received an alert that a drive had failed. It took me a while to figure out which physical drive actually needed to be replaced. This happens with network devices, too, and I wrote a post about systemd’s predictable network device names back in 2015. Cloud instances often make it even more confusing because storage devices are fully v...
