Urs Thuermann <u...@isnogud.escape.de> writes: > IMO the best solution is to use LVM. I use it since 2001 on most > drives and I don't have partitions. And I prefer to use device names > over using the *UUID or *LABEL prefixes. With LVM, device names are > predictable /dev/mapper/<vg-name>-<lv-name> with symlinks > /dev/<vg-name>/<lv-name>.
Following up myself: The reason I prefer stable device names instead of UUIDs or LABELs is that device names show up in some places even if you use UUID or LABEL in /etc/fstab or in your command line: On my laptop I have UUID in /etc/fstab but df still shows the device name: $ grep -w / /etc/fstab # / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installation UUID=c73ff331-0ff5-44fb-8aef-228e64a96175 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 $ df | grep -w / /dev/nvme0n1p2 237470384 107725172 117659352 48% / On my server with LVM I get: $ grep -w / /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/vg0-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 $ df | grep -w / /dev/mapper/vg0-root 2031440 659132 1261556 35% / urs
