On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:18:04PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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? Joey's example pretty much covered it. It'd just be UUID=<big string> for the UUID model. See fstab(5) for more enlightenment. > 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. You can use it for the root filesystem. I think I saw it done with LILO (trying to recollect my RHCE course), where it passed "root=LABEL=root" to the kernel as a parameter. regards Andrew
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