On 10/28/2016 06:00 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > 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. > I didn't think about that, actually. Yeah, I don't expect it on boot up since I don't have a regular backup schedule. I just plug it in, run a script, sync and unmount.
Still, I learned about LABEL= and UUID= with vanilla fstab. Good stuff to know. -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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