On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:53:35 -0800, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> 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? USB devices usually auto-fall under /media and do not need to be added in /etc/fstab, unless you want to use them as permanent mount points. But if the USB hard drive already has a label, and that label shares its name with another mounted device, it will generate a "collision". Nothing serious, I guess that when you plugged the USB drive it would have told you something like "mount point '/media/mylabel' already exists" and aborts. I mean, the success of mounting a device "by label" will depend on whether the user knows before hand if the device: a) Already has a label defined b) What is that label to prevent collisions with other devices So, in order to avoid that, distribution installers defaults to either UUID and/or ID for use it in /etc/fstab which tends to be a more secure approach. > 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. :-/ Strange behaviour, indeed. Maybe you could had find more information about that under /var/log/dmesg :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.03.13.19.19...@gmail.com
