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Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk



On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote:
> On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote:
> > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant
> > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a
> > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may be a bit ugly,
> > but I am lazy.
> 
> I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs.

Can you put PARTLABELs on an MBR disk?

(I'm not condoning such a disk. I'd take the opportunity to
switch to UEFI booting from a GPT SSD if that's possible.
Some explanation of the partitioning would be useful, rather
that slavishly copying them.)

Cheers,
David.


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