Actually, I've never really understood the labeling business (another case of exemplary documentation), so I use the actual device names unless the OS labels them and generates the fstab entries for me.
--------------------------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --------------------------| On Friday 2016-12-30 04:17, Richard Owlett wrote: >Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:17:21 >From: Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab >Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:50 +0000 >Resent-From: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > On 12/29/2016 3:14 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 2016-12-29 at 15:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >>> Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit : >>> >>>> I added these two lines to /etc/fstab: >>>> /dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext2 users,rw 0 0 >>>> /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext2 users,rw 0 0 >>> >>> Don't do that. Really. >>> >>> 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev/sda7. They are >>> unreliable. Use persistent identifiers such as UUID or LABEL instead. >> >> How does that work if these are for removable devices (as I think from >> past threads may well be the case here), > > In this case I am dealing with the only hard drive existing internal to the > laptop. > > >> and you may be plugging >> half-a-dozen different devices into the same port at different times >> (and want each one to be mounted to this same place)? >> >> AFAIK, both UUID and LABEL are device- or FS-specific. If that's not the >> case, I'd be interested to learn about it. >> > > >