On Sun December 4 2005 10:58 am, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun December 4 2005 10:20 am, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > > #LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults > > 1 2 > > /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults > > 1 2 > > > > (replace hdb1 with sda I'm trying to understand the fstab man page, but I'm still not getting something. From man fstab: "Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, e.g., ‘LABEL=Boot’ or ‘UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6’. This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label." >From this, if I'm getting it right, your first line is saying to look for an ext3 file system area to mount /home on - is that right? Assuming I'm right, I still don't understand how your second line replaces hdb1 with sda1 - what am I missing? I don't ever see sda1 mentioned - how is it found? If the answers are self-evident, I apologize in advance - sometimes you have to ask dumb questions to get past one's own mental blocks ;-) -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
