This is why I use LVM2 for everything related to mounted drives and file systems. Physical volumes (PV) have a UUID (customizable), but unnecessary in normal use since PV's are contained in Volume Groups (VG) and file systems are created on Logical Volumes (LV), both of which have arbitrary names, and which are then mounted. LVM2 keeps track of everything for you, and you can even move a set of disks to another Linux box and have everything sorted out for you by vgscan. See this article for more detail, https://medium.com/@michaelewan/the-joy-of-using-the-logical-volume-manager-with-linux-f1768e5413ef
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:22 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > Have I missed anything? > > Yep. I learned that Slackware does not have e2label, but does have tune2fs. > By trial-and-error I learned that the label name is double quoted so I > used > tune2fs -L "label" device-name > and added lables to the two data storage drives in the Probox. > > Also learned that when viewing block storage devices using blkid the > listing > for these two partitions begin with LABEL="name" while the last two drives > had PARTLABELs apparently set when I partitioned them further in the > listing. > > And I learned a lot of information about each drive using tune2fs -l > <drive_name>. Interesting stuff. > > Now in /etc/fstab the Probox drives are displayed with their LABEL or > PARTLABEL names rather than the device name. > > All four drives are mounted and each contains what it should. > > Whew! Time for another mug of coffee. > > Rich > >
