On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:56:45 -0700 Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 10:01 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > 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 > > > Replying to top level since it doesn't seem to fit elsewhere. > > I have an external HDD that I use for periodic, air-gapped backups. I > use /dev/disk/by-label for it. With that support being removed (or > rather, problematic for some system configurations), which method is > most future-proof? I saw mention of UUIDs; is that what we should switch to? LABEL=foo. The canonical ever-existing syntax which a lot of people seem to be ignorant about. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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