On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:06:05 -0800 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
I had a similar experience trying to recover from some problems back when they first started getting used. Ever since, I immediately retype the stuff in fstab to avoid such problems. I personally think it should be an option to use or not use it. > Just relating a recent experience I had that caused me to take a hard > look at the change to using LABEL syntax in /etc/fstab that occured > some time ago. > > I happended to be booting up a spare disk as 2nd master having > unhooked the normal 2nd master. As it happened that spare disc had > once been in use and had a linux file system on it resembling those in > my normal installation. However some of the named partitions were on > different devices. > > Example: I use a partiton called /anex on several machines, its not > always on the same device on each machine though. In this case > /anex was on /dev/hda11 in the normal install. However the spare disk > I had temporarily hooked to 2nd master, had /anex on /hdc9. > > When I booted up, the wrong /anex got mounted causing lots of > confusion for a while. I wondered if the LABEL syntax was what > allowed that to happen, so edited /etc/fstab to use the actual device > names as in the past. On reboot the correct /anex got mounted. > > I thought I understood the proposed benefit of having LABEL syntax but > now I see at least one situation where it could have caused serious > damage or other mishaps. Is it really a bad thing to nail down the > devices being mounted to specific OS devices? > > It may cause some small inconvience somewhere, but it seems that > having nailed down devices has got to be the clearist way to go. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Nice little planet you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
