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Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check
Date	2019-02-23 23:20 +0100
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On 2/23/19 4:53 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 23/02/2019 à 08:53, David Christensen a écrit :
>>
>> As other readers have noted, using UUID's for the fstab first field 
>> (fs_spec) is okay.  Newer Linux kernels offer more meaningful options, 
>> such as GPT labels and drive make/ model/ serial number (ID) strings.
> 
> AFAIK, these options have nothing to do with the kernel. They are 
> provided by libblkid. The only related option added to "newer" (it was 
> 3.x so not really new) kernels is the ability to specifiy the root 
> filesystem by PARTUUID instead of device node name or major:minor 
> numbers when not using an initrd or initramfs to mount the root filesystem.

Okay.  (I should have said "Newer Linux distributions".  And yes, those 
features were added a while ago.)


David

Thread

Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 14:20 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-23 13:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 20:20 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-24 16:50 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-24 18:40 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 14:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 15:50 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:30 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 18:10 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 22:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 22:10 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:10 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-02-23 18:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 23:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 15:30 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-22 16:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 17:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-22 20:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-22 20:30 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-23 03:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 09:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-22 23:40 +0100

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