On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:14 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > > (...) > > >> Maybe there is a good comparison chart about all these methods that > >> list their "pros" and "cons" :-? > > > Not a chart, but yes references to why uuid ... : > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364441 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572376 > > After a bit of digging, it seems all methods have its own drawbacks: > > by-label -> can generate collissions and is not present in all volumes > > by-path -> can also change because it depends on the system bus it is > attached to > > by-id -> it seems that not all devices provide an ID > > by-uuid -> as we have seen, when formating or repartitioning the device > it can also change > > Well, that said I like Lenny still uses the old scheme "/dev/sdx". At > least if it changes, I still understand it better than the new udev > naming :-) >
I've been changing to labels with squeeze. The up side: it is a hard designation and can be made unique. The collisions part is unclear to me. If one plugs into USB a drive from another machine, won't that just be listed in /dev by sdx, at which point it can have its fstab edited? I typo-ed the label for my root partition on my last fstab update but it mounted anyway as rootfs in mtab. So I put rootfs in fstab and it has been working. :-/ -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100313085335.ga5...@europa.office
