On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:56 AM, 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? > > In my case, it's a removable drive so it may be assigned to something > besides sdc at times.
If it is a removable drive, you probably do *not* have it set to mount on bootup, correct? If so, none of this applies to you since the udev-provided symlinks will be available to you.
