Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Someone mentioned UUIDs on IRC the other day and it sounds > interesting; but can you give a specific example for those you've > never seen this before? I've never used UUIDs, but here for example is the setup with labels on my 4-drive scsi server: /dev/sda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 LABEL=home /home ext3 defaults 0 2 LABEL=backup /backup ext3 defaults 0 2 LABEL=homebackup /backup/kite/home ext3 defaults 0 2 LABEL=root2 /backup/root2 ext3 noauto 0 2 LABEL=root3 /backup/root3 ext3 noauto 0 2 LABEL=root4 /backup/root4 ext3 auto 0 2 LABEL=svn /svn ext3 defaults 0 2 Note that you can't use labels for / (or there's no point, as the kernel mounts it). My setup is notable in that I can remove any number of the 4 drives and the system will still boot from one of the remaining root* partitions, and despite any scsi renumbering, will still find and mount /home, etc (if its drive is still available). This is nice, since the server is thousands of miles away. It would look similar with UUIDs, except without the nice names. -- see shy jo
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