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rpjday wrote:
>using labels for mounting and in /etc/fstab is a *very* good idea,
>as i can tell you from personal experience. if you decide to take
>an existing partition with an ext2 filesystem and split it in
>two for one reason or another, there is a good chance that the
>numbering scheme of the existing partitions is going to change.
>this will cause all sorts of grief when you next boot as a number
>of the entries in /etc/fstab will be wrong.
Like I said, that's what I've been told. That's fine, if it makes
things less likely to break for some people. Personally, I don't have
a problem making such adjustments manually. I don't care for
abstractions.
>deal with it, and learn to appreciate
>it.
I appreciate that there are different approaches, and I have no
problem with making some system functions more robust for the
uninitiated. I also appreciate that I can choose to eschew
obfuscation. =)
- -d
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David Talkington
Prairienet
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217-244-1962
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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