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Subject: Re: Disk mounting in recent Linuxes
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed a Linux (openSUSE) on a laptop and this is what I got by
> default in fstab:
> 
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5412_HP0400BEG1922A-part2 /
>             ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5412_HP0400BEG1922A-part4 /data
>             ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5412_HP0400BEG1922A-part3 swap
>             swap       defaults              0 0
> 
> A similar option (to use a device by id instead of location) also exists
> for network cards.
> 
> (This is just a "FYI" post, I'm not complaining :) ).


I was actually wondering if we should start labeling our filesystems at 
newfs time in the installer for this type of setup.  There are a handful 
of potential 'gotchas' though.

Eric