| Stephen Gran on 6 Jan 2007 18:08:28 -0000 |
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:31:32PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said: > A quick and easy way to deal with this for nameable devices is to put > a label tag in /etc/fstab. For example, these two lines in my /etc/fstab > > LABEL=backup400 /backup xfs rw,user 0 4 > LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL /cflash auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > handle mounting an external firewire hard drive and a USB CF card > reader. The first I named with mkfs -c, the second I know my camera > will always name properly. Now that udev, libata, and parallel module loading is the order of the day, this is actually probably the way of the future. Previously, we had /dev/hd* for IDE and /dev/sd* for just about everything else (flash cards, scsi disks, sata disks, etc). With the new libata interface, the kernel is going to start treating them all the same - I think they are going to settle on the sd* names, but I can't rememeber. And since things like udev load modules in parallel rather than serially, it's going to be a random event if your disks have the same enumeration from boot to boot. e2label has been my future proofing solution, although custom udev rules are another way to do it. I just don't want to have to rewrite my udev rules when I add a new disk to an array, so I've decided that file system labels are simplest for static permanent mounts like /. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The joys of love made her human and the | | steve@lobefin.net | agonies of love destroyed her. -- | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", | | | stardate 5842.8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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