adding to fstab

[david]

Using labels allows flexibility, and prevents you from getting "surprised"
if your disks or disk slices get renumbered (for example, if you added a new
device to the middle of a SCSI bus or LUNs on a SAN were scanned in in a
different order). Additionally, labels help make your vfstab more
self-documenting. Even better, don't deal with raw disk slices; give the
disk over to a volume manager like Linux LVM or VxVM and give yourself the
ability to grow and migrate filesystems as needed, and to maintain a
consistent abstraction layer. 

 

 

-DTK

 

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Subject: adding to fstab

 

  

All, I have created a new partition on a spare drive and want to add it to
the fstab. I basically see three(3) different ways to do it. All work but
what is the preferred way.

 

1. Use Blkid

2. Use Label

3. Use physical device (/dev/sdb1)

 

All seem to work fine.Any preference?

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