On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:14:27 -0700 Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> dijo:
>I fear that my naive trust-to-luck works-like-the-past >assumptions are too naive. > >I hope that someone on the list can suggest an approach that >Just Works With Slightly More Preparation and Knowledge. Several years ago I discovered the option of giving a partition a label (with GParted) and then specifying it as such in /etc/fstab, rather than using UUIDs. For example, this line in fstab mounts an external USB device: LABEL=Movies /media/jjj/Movies auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 Where I used GParted to give the device the label 'Movies.' An added benefit is that my English-aware human brain can easily identify the device, which is not true if I had identified the device by UUID. The disadvantage of using labels is that you will have a mess if you try to mount two devices with the same label on the same filesystem. Always be sure that your labels are unique. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
