Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab
Actually, I've never really understood the labeling business (another
case of exemplary documentation), so I use the actual device names
unless the OS labels them and generates the fstab entries for me.
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On Friday 2016-12-30 04:17, Richard Owlett wrote:
>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:17:21
>From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab
>Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:50 +0000
>Resent-From: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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> 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),
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> In this case I am dealing with the only hard drive existing internal to the
> laptop.
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>> 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.
>>
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