"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am not sure why it is a problem with kernel 2.4. Using LABEL instead
> of the device name for mounting ext2 partitions has been around for a
> while (5.x?) The old syntax also works. The advantage of using LABEL
It was new in 7.0... Wasn't stock in 6.2 or earlier. Its been around
only a few months as default.
> is that the device can change without requiring change in /etc/fstab.
> This can be real handy with SCSI drives, where the device can change
> when you add another drive in the change. If you have 3 drives, with
> IDs 0, 1 and 2, and the drive #2 (ID 1) dies, drive #3 changes from
> /dev/sdc to /dev/sdb. For IDE drives, it is handy if you do something
> like move a drive from secondary master to primary slave...
May be handy for those cases but is really useless for figuring out
where things are mounted, or will mount.
mtab only has mounted.
I think there should be a parellel file generated that gives the hdXX
sdXX etc locations.
If you've ever had to repair a drive or restore it after the table is
overwritten, things like `/usr/home' are useless. `Fdisk' or `df' can
no longer see a drive in such a case.
You will be in dire need of a listing of where things are on disks not
some imaginary `label'.
I keep a daily backup of fstab, fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdc and df
output, sent to a remote machine for just such emergencies.
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