On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:44, Colin Watson wrote: > > Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make > > /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. > > The approach we took in Ubuntu was to put comments above each UUID > entry in /etc/fstab documenting which traditional device name they > corresponded to at the point of installation. Of course this can get > out of date, but I don't think there's really any sensible way around > that. My main point is not that the UUID itself is not readable, but rather that the lines get way too long and, depending on your editor (settings), either get wrapped or disappear off screen. You loose the easy overview of what's in fstab. /etc/fstab used to be fairly maintainable because the info could be kept in columns fairly easily for most cases and because the info would mostly fit on one line [1]. IMO with a switch to UUIDs we are going to need an fstab editor (console based) that: - does the translation to the "normal" device names on the fly (and thus does always reflect the actual situation) - provides different 'views' of what's in fstab - allows to select what representation for the file system should be used in the fstab (traditional, path, uuid, id, ...) - allows to set mount point, type, mount options, etc. - sorts partitions into a logical order - maybe knows about removable devices - has a simple interface to add new entries for e.g. USB sticks - ... [1] Yeah, I know this is not true for NFS volumes and if a lot of options are used, but in general it was true.
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