Nailing Down a /dev point 2006-01-15 - By Elam Daly
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ah. ok.
Thanks again.
On 1/15/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@(protected)> wrote:
>
> 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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ah. ok.<br><br>Thanks again.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1
/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arjan van de Ven</b> <<a href="mailto
:arjan@(protected)">arjan@(protected)</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote
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On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:56 -0500, Elam Daly wrote:<br>> Okay one last
question.<br>><br>> >regardless as to whether it is detected as sda,
sdb, sdc, or<br>> whatever.<br>><br>> I'm a little confused by this.
So if I set my label for /dev/sda1
<br>> then are you saying that the label will apply to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdd1
<br>> etc *or* that I have to set the previous label to all of my sd* /dev<br
>> points ie:<br><br>eh not quite..<br><br>you label the *filesystem* as
being, say, named "BACKUPDEVICE".
<br><br>Once you have done that, you no longer need to know a device name AT<br
>ALL, but all you do is tell mount to mount the device which has label<br>"
;BACKUPDEVICE". mount will then go look for it, finds whatever device
<br>name it has today, and use that.<br><br>--<br>Taroon-list mailing list<br>
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