Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the
> > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure
> > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by grub. The output of
> > df -h is still the same mixed up mess.
>
> Device names are not stable (not changing), only UUIDs and LABELs are.
/dev/md device names are designed to be stable. LVM LV device names are also
designed to be stable.
Half-baked search for UUIDs and LABELs can cause the detection of component
devices, which can result in data loss or corruption. So you must be able
to limit the search scope.
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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