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.
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