On Tuesday, 26-11-2024 at 02:33 Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2024-11-25 09:21 (UTC-0600):
>
> > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote:
>
> >> George at Clug wrote:
>
> >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant
> >>> partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a
> >>> mount point to "/etc/fstab". The resulting paths may be a bit ugly,
> >>> but I am lazy.
>
> >> I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs.
>
> > Can you put PARTLABELs on an MBR disk?
>
> > (I'm not condoning such a disk. I'd take the opportunity to
> > switch to UEFI booting from a GPT SSD if that's possible.
> > Some explanation of the partitioning would be useful, rather
> > that slavishly copying them.)
>
> I have to think eben wasn't conscious of the difference between PARTLABEL and
> LABEL when composing.
>
> All manual configuration I do involving Linux native filesystems is done using
> LABELs, swapspace too. I favor lsblk -f over blkid most of the time.
"$ lsblk -f" output is very nice ! Thanks.
George.
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> Felix Miata
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