Re: I'm at a loss running Debian

[Bob <bob@bjerremose.com>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Bob wrote:
>> I tried the /dev/disk/by-label approach some time ago, but found it to
>> be quite unstable on the nslu2.
>> On my boxes, the partition label was not always read from the disk, and
>> the boot failed.
>>
>> Then I changed the entries in fstab to use "/dev/disk/by-uuid" instead,
>> and since then, I have not had any problems.
>
> Use LABEL=blah or UUID=xxx-xxx... rather than /dev/disk/...
> Much simpler and not specific to udev or anything else.
>
> This applies both to the kernel command line and /etc/fstab.
I must say, I'm not familiar with the LABEL=blah or UUID=xxx-xxx syntax.
Do you have an example of a fstab entry using these attributes?
I guess I could look it up on google, but it would be nice to have it in
this thread also...
--
Bob