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Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

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Actually, I've never really understood the labeling business (another
case of exemplary documentation), so I use the actual device names
unless the OS labels them and generates the fstab entries for me.

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On Friday 2016-12-30 04:17, Richard Owlett wrote:

>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:17:21
>From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab
>Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:50 +0000
>Resent-From: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>
> On 12/29/2016 3:14 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
>> On 2016-12-29 at 15:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>>> Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I added these two lines to /etc/fstab:
>>>> /dev/sda7       /media/sda7     ext2    users,rw     0       0
>>>> /dev/sda8       /media/sda8     ext2    users,rw     0       0
>>>
>>> Don't do that. Really.
>>>
>>> 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev/sda7. They are
>>> unreliable. Use persistent identifiers such as UUID or LABEL instead.
>>
>> How does that work if these are for removable devices (as I think from
>> past threads may well be the case here),
>
> In this case I am dealing with the only hard drive existing internal to the
> laptop.
>
>
>> and you may be plugging
>> half-a-dozen different devices into the same port at different times
>> (and want each one to be mounted to this same place)?
>>
>> AFAIK, both UUID and LABEL are device- or FS-specific. If that's not the
>> case, I'd be interested to learn about it.
>>
>
>
>

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Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-29 17:00 +0100
  Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-29 22:00 +0100
    Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-12-29 22:20 +0100
      Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-29 23:10 +0100
      Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 12:20 +0100
        Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 14:20 +0100
          Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 17:20 +0100
            Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 17:20 +0100
              Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 18:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 19:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-12-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 21:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-31 10:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-12-30 19:20 +0100
        Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-12-30 19:20 +0100
    Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 12:20 +0100

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