Using labels allows flexibility, and prevents you from getting "surprised" if your disks or disk slices get renumbered (for example, if you added a new device to the middle of a SCSI bus or LUNs on a SAN were scanned in in a different order). Additionally, labels help make your vfstab more self-documenting. Even better, don't deal with raw disk slices; give the disk over to a volume manager like Linux LVM or VxVM and give yourself the ability to grow and migrate filesystems as needed, and to maintain a consistent abstraction layer.
-DTK From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clift, Tom CIV NSWCDD, K55 Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: adding to fstab All, I have created a new partition on a spare drive and want to add it to the fstab. I basically see three(3) different ways to do it. All work but what is the preferred way. 1. Use Blkid 2. Use Label 3. Use physical device (/dev/sdb1) All seem to work fine.Any preference?
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