On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > It's that sort of crap (shuffling positions) that made me dispair of > > > the decision to make all Linux hard drives /dev/sd<something>. > > > > that's why i prefer to use LVM, where the mount info is based on the > > names i gave the logical volumes: > > > > $ mount > > ... > > /dev/mapper/f8-opt on /opt type ext3 (rw) > > /dev/mapper/f8-var on /var type ext3 (rw) > > /dev/mapper/f8-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw) > > /dev/mapper/f8-usrlocal on /usr/local type ext3 (rw) > > ... > > > > and even if you're not using LVM, you can always still mount by > > filesystem volume name; i just consider the "named" mount info a nice > > bonus of using LVM. > > Does this suffer from the same problem as filesystem labels if you > create identical names on two machines and subsequently move the > volumes to a single machine? i've never tried, but i imagine it would, but only if you use exactly the same names for volume group and logical volumes. from the above, on my single disk system, i created a volume group called "f8", inside which i created several logical volumes whose names matched the filesystems i created. pretty standard stuff, it's the way i've done it for years. now, if you bring over another drive on which you created the same volume group and same logical volumes, i imagine *something* is going to clash eventually, but there's always "vgrename" to rename a volume group before you do that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
