begin quoting kelsey hudson as of Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:52:30PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >>>Label your filesystems and mount by label. > > >Bleah. > > >Then you need to mess about with watching drive lights and running > >find or sync or something to remember what filesystem is on which > >drive. > > Add comments to your fstab.
If I have comments in my fstab, I don't need labels. ;-P > >I like knowing that *this* partition is on *that* disk. > > That's what mount(8) is for. With no arguments, even on a system that > mounts via label, it still shows you what filesystem is on what device. Surely df does a prettier job with the formatting. JHRIV's suggestion is perhaps the best so far. You can label each disk (yay sharpie!) with "PREFIX", and then label each partition with "PREFIX_ROLE" for each role. This requires some forethought, however, and a naming scheme. -- I suggest something other than the naming scheme used for one's machines. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
