On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:22:03PM -0000, peter green wrote: > for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. > hda=ide primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs > would mean a lot of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to > backup a partition by dding it to another one)
Note that various of the solutions suggested in this thread break the case where you *restore* from a dd'ed backup onto a new disk. If you restore such a backup after a fatal disk crash, you want the result to be mounted in the same place as before even though the drive ID and possibly its physical location are different. Thus I don't agree that by-id or by-path are good solutions to this problem; by-id even breaks where old-style "IDE primary master"-type identification would have worked fine. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
