On 4-Aug-13, at 12:21 PM, Grant Grundler wrote:
Right. Linux doesn't have a registry for /dev/sdX names and I don't think it ever will. Using root=UUID=xxx or root=LABEL=foo is plug and play friendly.
Thanks, I'll give this a try.
I believe LABEL comes from the partition table and UUID from the file system. But double check that.
It's my understanding that there's a UUID in the partition table and also one for each filesystem. I cloned a hard drive yesterday and had to reset its UUIDs in order to mount the partitions on same machine. This was trivial for the ext2 boot partition but a little less so for the xfs partitions. The journal had to be cleared to change the UUID. There were scary warnings about loosing data, etc.
I can say xfs works on parisc even for root. I was going to also try btrfs but it seemed
somewhat more experimental. Dave -- John David Anglin [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
