Re: The ext3 way of journalling

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Fri Jan 11 2008 - 11:22:59 EST


Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > Don't use udev then. Good old static dev works fine if you have a fixed
>> > set of devices.
>>
>> It doesn't, with the unpredictable SCSI mapping insanity.
>
> That what LABEL und UUID-Support in mount is for.
>
> You label the filesystems (e2label for ext2 and ext3) and use that label to
> mount them
>
> - fstab -
> LABEL=root / xfs defaults,noatime 0 1
> LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 0 2

What can happen if someone does tune2fs -Lroot /dev/usbstick
and puts that stick into this system?

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