How does the boot process decide the order in which devices are to be mounted? The following are the relevant lines from /etc/fstab for my devices and partitions, listed in order as they appear in fstab. Note that each partition has a Label that I added to the partition when I created it, mostly long ago. I know conventional wisdom is to use UUIDs, but I have had problems with UUIDs in the past, so I prefer Labels. Besides, Labels are human-readable.
LABEL=Boot / ext4 defaults 0 1 LABEL=Home /home ext4 defaults 0 2 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology nfs auto,user 0 0 LABEL=Data /media/jjj/Data auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 LABEL=Movies /media/jjj/Movies auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 As I sit here right now 'mount' says that Boot is /dev/sdc1 and Home is /dev/sdc2, Data is /dev/sda1 and Movies is /dev/sdb1. This makes no sense to me. Why are device letters not assigned in order as listed in fstab? Where does the boot process get mount order instructions from? Is there a way to force things to mount in a certain order? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
