Gregory Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:18 AM, kelsey hudson wrote: > > >I cannot stress enough: > > > >Label your filesystems and mount by label. > > If you have any filesystems you regularly use that are attached by > USB/Firewire, or you have several computers and occasionally juggle > hard drives between them, use filesystem UUIDs instead. > > It's much better than using labels, because labels are duplicated > across systems, and mounting "LABEL=/" in /etc/fstab, when you > install a hard drive from a second system in order to recover data, > can cause serious problems. I really wish the distro vendors would > switch to mounting by UUID by default, as it guarantees that you're > really getting the filesystem you think you are. This is even more > important if you install multiple distributions on your system, and > they all want to mount by label.
Use better labels. UUIDS are terribly unreadable. My workstation is using lables: CHAO_BOOT CHAO_ROOT CHAO_HOME CHAO_VM That tells me the mount point, and the system it came from. Even if you mount using UUID in /etc/fstab, you can use e2label or xfs_admin to view the label, giving you good information about it. Very good years later when you wonder what the heck this drive has on it. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
