On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote:
David Wright wrote:All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured up by udev or somesuch, if not the linux kernelBut are they not accurate after boot for particular disks on a particular machine ?
Maybe. The LABEL= is parsed by mount, which uses the same logic/source for that as blkid. The /dev/disk stuff is actually the product of more indirection and another codebase--more likely to break than LABEL=. (Not that either is likely. So shortest is best. :D)