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Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue |
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>> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home |
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>> partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully |
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>> confuse someone I guess. :/ With UUIDs, who knows what is what there. |
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> Given how much trouble it was getting grub2 to cooperate (for some |
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> reason device.map was missing, and grub-install --recheck didn't rebuild |
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> it) I really don't want to mess with it again trying to get labels to work. |
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> Actually, grub2 refused to use UUIDs in the grub2-mkconfig script, even |
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> when I explicitly told it to via /etc/default/grub. |
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> I wound up having to use the PARTUUID for the root= line or the system |
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> would not boot (manually, vy forcing it in /etc/default/grub.) |
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> Oddly enough, it was only one machine out of seven so far that's had |
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> this weird udev "I'm gonna swap /dev/sda for /dev/sdf for no discernable |
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> reason" problem. |
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> Dan |
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Yea, sometimes things don't cooperate and we have to find a workaround. |
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When that happens, you just have to do what you have to do. |
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At least it boots correctly with it set up that way. It's a improvement |
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over not booting. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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