Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 12/29/2016 3:14 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2016-12-29 at 15:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> > Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> >
> > > I added these two lines to /etc/fstab:
> > > /dev/sda7       /media/sda7     ext2    users,rw     0       0
> > > /dev/sda8       /media/sda8     ext2    users,rw     0       0
> >
> > Don't do that. Really.
> >
> > 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev/sda7. They are
> > unreliable. Use persistent identifiers such as UUID or LABEL instead.
>
> How does that work if these are for removable devices (as I think from
> past threads may well be the case here),

In this case I am dealing with the only hard drive existing 
internal to the laptop.


>  and you may be plugging
> half-a-dozen different devices into the same port at different times
> (and want each one to be mounted to this same place)?
>
> AFAIK, both UUID and LABEL are device- or FS-specific. If that's not the
> case, I'd be interested to learn about it.