Subject: mounting device by name
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/01/2004 12:20:44
I just stumbled across something nice in the Linux fstab(5) manpage that
might be nice to adopt to some extent:
Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate
the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its
UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)),
writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, e.g., `LABEL=Boot'
or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will
make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI
disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem
volume label.
- Hubert
--
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>