All, this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles.
I do have a question about the newsitem -- how do I make it display only for Linux users? Thanks, William
Title: Inportant fstab update Author: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2016-10-28 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to take any action for this news item. If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Your system will become unbootable in the future if you do not do so. You need to replace the /dev/disk/by-* paths in your fstab with the equivalent information from the output of the blkid utility. For example, here is out from blkid on my system: # blkid /dev/sda2: LABEL="boot" UUID="371432e9-7e6c-4205-9d4e-b23f6212e54b" TYPE="ext2" PARTLABEL="boot" PARTUUID="2451c4a9-0405-425e-8d53-4567beae8651" /dev/sda3: LABEL="swap" UUID="d579b037-615c-441f-8f83-03e3c4919c21" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="14c0d838-6dc5-4fdb-9a9d-c9523acdadc7" /dev/sda4: LABEL="root" UUID="5c496429-c836-4b23-9b11-7efd609c7cde" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="rootfs" PARTUUID="8a9765a4-7a20-4fa4-87e2-7a64d782e0d0" /dev/sda5: LABEL="home" UUID="bb63928e-67c0-4522-b4a0-66be507c2c2f" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="home" PARTUUID="000848d8-b51b-4671-8754-6d3b0c8df465" /dev/sda6: LABEL="var" UUID="fcb8046b-283b-45c0-a2c0-ae1001bebf82" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="var" PARTUUID="e1d8ccf6-3523-4c13-baae-e674ee0b43bf" /dev/sda1: PARTLABEL="grub" PARTUUID="700e8338-399f-4d33-9e15-73c85b136f3d" My fstab can use any of the labels or ids, so I use labels: LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 LABEL=root / ext4 defaults 0 1 LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults 0 1 LABEL=var /var ext4 defaults 0 1
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