Nailing Down a /dev point 2006-01-15 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:56 -0500, Elam Daly wrote:
> Okay one last question.
>
> >regardless as to whether it is detected as sda, sdb, sdc, or
> whatever.
>
> I'm a little confused by this. So if I set my label for /dev/sda1
> then are you saying that the label will apply to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdd1
> etc *or* that I have to set the previous label to all of my sd* /dev
> points ie:
eh not quite..
you label the *filesystem* as being, say, named "BACKUPDEVICE".
Once you have done that, you no longer need to know a device name AT
ALL, but all you do is tell mount to mount the device which has label
"BACKUPDEVICE". mount will then go look for it, finds whatever device
name it has today, and use that.
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