Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:14 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> >> Maybe there is a good comparison chart about all these methods that
> >> list their "pros" and "cons" :-?
>
> > Not a chart, but yes references to why uuid ... :
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364441
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572376
>
> After a bit of digging, it seems all methods have its own drawbacks:
>
> by-label -> can generate collissions and is not present in all volumes
>
> by-path -> can also change because it depends on the system bus it is
> attached to
>
> by-id -> it seems that not all devices provide an ID
>
> by-uuid -> as we have seen, when formating or repartitioning the device
> it can also change
>
> Well, that said I like Lenny still uses the old scheme "/dev/sdx". At
> least if it changes, I still understand it better than the new udev
> naming :-)
>
I've been changing to labels with squeeze. The up side: it is a hard
designation and can be made unique.
The collisions part is unclear to me. If one plugs into USB a drive from
another machine, won't that just be listed in /dev by sdx, at which point it
can have its fstab edited?
I typo-ed the label for my root partition on my last fstab update but it
mounted anyway as rootfs in mtab. So I put rootfs in fstab and it has been
working. :-/
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
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