On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote:
David Wright wrote:
All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral
bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured
up by udev or somesuch, if not the linux kernel
But are they not accurate after boot
for particular disks on a particular machine ?
Maybe. The LABEL= is parsed by mount, which uses the same logic/source
for that as blkid. The /dev/disk stuff is actually the product of more
indirection and another codebase--more likely to break than LABEL=. (Not
that either is likely. So shortest is best. :D)