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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 15:38:20 UTC 2007
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> It's that sort of crap (shuffling positions) that made me dispair of
>> the decision to make all Linux hard drives /dev/sd<something>.
>
> that's why i prefer to use LVM, where the mount info is based on the
> names i gave the logical volumes:
>
> $ mount
> ...
> /dev/mapper/f8-opt on /opt type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-var on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/f8-usrlocal on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
> ...
>
> and even if you're not using LVM, you can always still mount by
> filesystem volume name; i just consider the "named" mount info a nice
> bonus of using LVM.
Does this suffer from the same problem as filesystem labels if you
create identical names on two machines and subsequently move the volumes
to a single machine?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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