On Mon December 5 2005 2:43 am, Tim wrote: > Claude Jones: > > 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." > > Which means something along the lines that if your (current) /dev/hdb3 > partition was labelled as being "/home"..........snip........ lots of advice Thanks, Tim. I went on quite an odyssey, today. All these matters I now understand quite well. I still have a baffling issue, but that's another story. Working in the world of Windows for so many years, it took a little time to wrap the concepts around my brain of the Linux file systems and how they work - it was a very productive day. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
