On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:02:21 +0100
jdd
Le 12/03/2011 07:58, Thomas Taylor a écrit :
If you get rid of /dev/disk/by-id, How can you identify a partition in event of a partition table failure?
the partition number is still part of the name
Not on my install (11.4 from scratch) unless I modify /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst as shown in the attached screenshots. The only partition number in either one are what I have added, not by the installer which ONLY shows uuids, not partition numbers.
Also, if you have a drive failure and have to restore from a backup (disk image), how are you going to partition a new disk which will have different uuids?
if you don't have a "fdisk -l" hard copy, you are in trouble for recovery of the same disk. For an other disk the partitionning have no meaning (only the mount points have)
or may be I don't understand the point
jdd
I always save a backup before any update/install including drive info. How do you ghost a backup that only has uuids when replacing a defective drive (I.E. how do you transfer the uuids which will be different on the new drive)? Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.5.95, FF 4.0 Beta claws-mail 3.7.8 claws-mail 3.7.8 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net