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On 28/10/16 12:56 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> On 10/25/2016 10:01 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> All, |
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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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>> William |
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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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What is being recommended here is that instead of |
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/dev/disk/by-label/<label> in fstab, you would use LABEL=<label> |
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man fstab for more info on LABEL= , UUID= , etc. |
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