Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing

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Subject: Re: /dev/disk/by-id/ in testing
From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 16:08:36 +0100
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Le 06/01/2019 à 14:35, songbird a écrit :


   i don't mount by ids, i mount by labels, but in looking
at the doc for lilo.conf i see that it should also be
possible to use UUIDs too.

No, UUIDs and LABELs cannot be used to specify a whole partitioned diskas the boot device because they are filesystem metadata. Wholepartitioned disks are not present in /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/.

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