UUIDs in fstab

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Apr 30 19:38:42 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> The problem does not only arise at install time.  In fact, thats the 
> simple case.  If you move a disk from system to system you could get 
> it booting the wrong system because labels conflict, when during 
> install it was fine.  So you need to make sure when two systems are 
> installed their labels will be sufficiently unique... foo-UUID might 
> work fine for that but anything short of it fails.

We still need to solve this problem with VolGroup00 (LVM Volume Group 
names in general).




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