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On 10/28/2016 06:00 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 10/25/2016 10:01 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>> All, |
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>>> |
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>>> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to |
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>>> move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles. |
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>>> I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only |
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>>> for Linux users? |
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>>> Thanks, |
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>>> |
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>>> William |
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>>> |
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>> Replying to top level since it doesn't seem to fit elsewhere. |
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>> I have an external HDD that I use for periodic, air-gapped backups. I |
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>> use /dev/disk/by-label for it. With that support being removed (or |
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>> rather, problematic for some system configurations), which method is |
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>> most future-proof? I saw mention of UUIDs; is that what we should switch to? |
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>> In my case, it's a removable drive so it may be assigned to something |
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>> besides sdc at times. |
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> If it is a removable drive, you probably do *not* have it set to mount |
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> on bootup, correct? |
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> If so, none of this applies to you since the udev-provided symlinks |
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> will be available to you. |
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I didn't think about that, actually. Yeah, I don't expect it on boot up |
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since I don't have a regular backup schedule. I just plug it in, run a |
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script, sync and unmount. |
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Still, I learned about LABEL= and UUID= with vanilla fstab. Good stuff |
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to know. |
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