Michael Stone wrote: > 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--morelikely to break than LABEL=. > > (Not that either is likely. > > So shortest is best. :D)
OK, I can understand a higher potential for breakage due to a different codebase and/or indirection .... I suppose I've been lucky to never have encountered any problems using /dev/disk/by-label in fstab but I've only ever run machines with at most 2 drives along with an optical drive .... I have swapped drives between machines a few times for one reason or another, but don't recall any problems with those either after fstab adjustments. -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona