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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephen Porter <stephenp@r-s.com.au>
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Power loss causes bad magic number??
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:17:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlofqw5a.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F46A887185FC6044A7FAC577E31118AE02231846@rsbne01.RSBNE.LOCAL> (Stephen Porter's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:52:43 +1000")

"Stephen Porter" <stephenp@r-s.com.au> writes:
>   
> I think this is going to be my only option (unless I want to keep
> updating fstab entries each time _something_ updates on the box).  Time
> to visit google again.  I realise this is now way off topic, but is
> there a "preferred method" with regards to mounting by labels or uuid?

Modern distributions generall give you several other options using udev.
e.g. common is using /dev/disk/by-path/ (which should be stable)
Drawback is that this always requires a initrd for mounting /

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16  2:18 Power loss causes bad magic number?? Stephen Porter
2008-07-16  2:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-16  7:01   ` Stephen Porter
2008-07-16  7:35     ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-16  8:17       ` Stephen Porter
2008-07-16 16:00         ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-07-17 13:36         ` Russell Cattelan
2008-07-17 21:52           ` Stephen Porter
2008-07-18 11:17             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-18 18:19         ` Peter Grandi
2009-02-07 20:46 ` kevin.dual
2009-02-07 21:10   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-07 21:54     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-08  6:10     ` Kevin Dual

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