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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Title: Inportant fstab update |
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> Author: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2016-10-28 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to |
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> take any action for this news item. |
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> If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SOON AS |
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> POSSIBLE. Your system will become unbootable in the future if you do |
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> not do so. |
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I don't think this is a good way to start any text. You should start |
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with a short introduction on what's happening, when and how. |
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Right now the news item sounds like the world is going to suddenly fall |
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apart for no specific reason. Reading it, I don't know what's changing, |
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and how to check if it impacts me already (i.e. if it's 'do not |
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reboot' kind of problem) and if it will impact me at all. |
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> You need to replace the /dev/disk/by-* paths in your fstab with the |
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> equivalent information from the output of the blkid utility. |
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This is at least unclear, if not misguiding. I read it as 'blkid will |
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give you fs info'. However, you're not telling me which of those |
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information I can use and how. I should also point out that blkid |
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supports multiple output formats. |
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I think it would be better if you explicitly listed the thingies |
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supported by mount(1). |
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> For example, here is out from blkid on my system: |
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> # blkid |
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> /dev/sda2: LABEL="boot" UUID="371432e9-7e6c-4205-9d4e-b23f6212e54b" TYPE="ext2" PARTLABEL="boot" PARTUUID="2451c4a9-0405-425e-8d53-4567beae8651" |
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> /dev/sda3: LABEL="swap" UUID="d579b037-615c-441f-8f83-03e3c4919c21" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="14c0d838-6dc5-4fdb-9a9d-c9523acdadc7" |
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> /dev/sda4: LABEL="root" UUID="5c496429-c836-4b23-9b11-7efd609c7cde" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="rootfs" PARTUUID="8a9765a4-7a20-4fa4-87e2-7a64d782e0d0" |
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> /dev/sda5: LABEL="home" UUID="bb63928e-67c0-4522-b4a0-66be507c2c2f" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="home" PARTUUID="000848d8-b51b-4671-8754-6d3b0c8df465" |
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> /dev/sda6: LABEL="var" UUID="fcb8046b-283b-45c0-a2c0-ae1001bebf82" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="var" PARTUUID="e1d8ccf6-3523-4c13-baae-e674ee0b43bf" |
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> /dev/sda1: PARTLABEL="grub" PARTUUID="700e8338-399f-4d33-9e15-73c85b136f3d" |
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> My fstab can use any of the labels or ids, so I use labels: |
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> LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 |
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> LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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> LABEL=root / ext4 defaults 0 1 |
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> LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults 0 1 |
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> LABEL=var /var ext4 defaults 0 1 |
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I'm afraid those examples are not really readable. Furthermore, I don't |
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see much point in pasting the whole fstab if all entries use LABEL=. |
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Try to keep them below 72 (or 80?) chars, skip blkid or paste just one |
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entry (wrapped), paste a minimal fstab just as example how the tags can |
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be used. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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