Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:15:36 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

> From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
>
> > Maybe you don't know, but we have that today.
> >
> > LABEL=Boot /boot ext2 noauto 0 0
> >
> > and
> >
> > UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6 /boot ext2 noauto 0 0
> >
> > both work in fstab.
>
> For root?
>
> Of course. And if you add the `user' option in these lines
> also for non-root. It is not different from a line
>
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto 0 0
>
> except that it continues to work if I add a SCSI disk so that
> sda becomes sdb.

Thank you! I've been wanting this for ever so long. I was about to
complain that I'd never seen it documented, but man 1 mount does indeed
document -L and -U switches for these.

However, man fstab doesn't show any such options, and still claims to be
for Linux 0.99 from 1993. Where do I get the updated page?

The addition of these features should have been announced with much
fanfare. Did I miss something?

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Specializing in unusual perspectives for more than twenty years.

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