On Tuesday, 24 November 2020 14:18:58 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:20:52 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > My workstation has one NVMe drive and two SATAs. They're always > > detected in the same order, so I've no need to render my fstab > > illegible with UUIDs. I could use labels, but why bother? The old > > system ain't broke, so I've no need to fix it. > > But you can fix it in your own time, waiting until it breaks is never > convenient.
There's nothing to fix, as I said. I'm happy to stick with the /dev/sdX syntax for as long as it remains valid. Occam's Razor applies: "don't complicate beyond need." > > Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions specified with UUIDs? > > Doesn't bear thinking about. > > Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking about. The NVMe drive, the main one, has 18; I could merge some of those and delete a couple that aren't used any more. The packages and distfiles directories don't need separate partitions, for example. I suppose it's a bit like Topsy, who "just growed." -- Regards, Peter.
