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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:00:43
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42OS4S1kXu+sPvTk_5c-H_gU+W-a0A0VYJy4AkOYNAseQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update by Daniel Campbell
1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 10/25/2016 10:01 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
3 >> All,
4 >>
5 >> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to
6 >> move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles.
7 >>
8 >> I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only
9 >> for Linux users?
10 >>
11 >> Thanks,
12 >>
13 >> William
14 >>
15 > Replying to top level since it doesn't seem to fit elsewhere.
16 >
17 > I have an external HDD that I use for periodic, air-gapped backups. I
18 > use /dev/disk/by-label for it. With that support being removed (or
19 > rather, problematic for some system configurations), which method is
20 > most future-proof? I saw mention of UUIDs; is that what we should switch to?
21 >
22 > In my case, it's a removable drive so it may be assigned to something
23 > besides sdc at times.
24
25 If it is a removable drive, you probably do *not* have it set to mount
26 on bootup, correct?
27
28 If so, none of this applies to you since the udev-provided symlinks
29 will be available to you.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>