From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m6IBGN6n006211 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:16:27 -0700 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B8CC7304858 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net (smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net [88.44.63.6]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id dbgL12MSjelldPmd for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Power loss causes bad magic number?? From: Andi Kleen References: <487D5F80.1050909@sandeen.net> <20080716073503.GE29319@disturbed> <487F4AC5.3000806@thebarn.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:17:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stephen Porter's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:52:43 +1000") Message-ID: <87zlofqw5a.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Stephen Porter Cc: Russell Cattelan , xfs@oss.sgi.com "Stephen Porter" 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