Nailing Down a /dev point 2006-01-15 - By Tim Edwards
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Elam Daly wrote:
> > >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.
For example, in /etc/fstab:
LABEL=BACKUPDEVICE /mnt/backups ext3
defaults 1 2
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